Forest Simmons wrote (Sun Jul 6 16:36:32 PDT 2008 ):
There is a lot of momentum behind IRV. If we cannot stop it, are there some
tweaks that would make it more liveable?
Someone has suggested that a candidate withdrawal option would go a long way
towards ameliorating the damage.
Here's another
James Gilmour wrote:
Kristofer Munsterhjelm Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 12:10 AM
Second, I've been reading about the decoy list problem in mixed member
proportionality. The strategy exists because the method can't do
anything when a party doesn't have any list votes to compensate for
Rob LeGrand wrote:
Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
(On a related note, has anyone tried to use Range with LeGrand's
Equilibrium Average instead of plain average?)
I don't recommend using Equilibrium Average (which I usually call AAR
DSV, for Average-Approval-Rating DSV) to elect winner(s) from
Dear Kathy Dopp,
Please stop referring to your report on IRV as peer-reviewed. That is an
absolutely false statement.
Peer-reviewed as used in the social sciences (and hard sciences too)
typically means a blind review process where a journal editor sends a
draft article to several reviewers
From Kathy Dopp's anti-IRV propaganda report:
17. Unstable and can be delicately sensitive to noise in the rankings. If an
election is not
resolved after 3 rounds of IRV then one is deep in the ranking for many people.
This means
noise in the rankings. Do people really study candidates they
Kristofer said:
That could be an interesting way to solve the indecisive parliament or
frequent government change problem where these exist. In order to
recall the executive, they have to vote for a new coalition at the same
time.
They have kinda that rule in Germany.? The only
On Jul 8, 2008, at 15:24 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
Even though I think multiwinner methods should be party-neutral, I
can see the appeal of MMP: parties are guaranteed to get their
share of the vote, even if the constituency vote is disproportional.
use a proportional
I care little for IRV, which deserves an early death, but think of needs
of Condorcet, which also uses a ranked ballot.
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Chris Benham wrote:
From Kathy Dopp's anti-IRV propaganda report:
17. Unstable and can be delicately sensitive to noise in the
