Re: [Election-Methods] delegate cascade

2008-07-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:26 AM 7/22/2008, Michael Allan wrote: I'm grateful I was directed to this list. You're clearly experts. I wish I could reply more completely right away (I should know better than to start 2 separate threads). I'll just reply to Juho's questions today, and tomorrow I'll look at Abd's

Re: [Election-Methods] delegate cascade

2008-07-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:49 PM 7/22/2008, Juho wrote: On Jul 22, 2008, at 14:26 , Michael Allan wrote: What is btw the reason that there were no arrows forward from the two leading candidates in the election snapshot picture in the references page? Did they abstain or were their votes (not even their own vote)

Re: [Election-Methods] delegate cascade

2008-07-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:59 AM 7/23/2008, Michael Allan wrote: Juho wrote: What is btw the reason that there were no arrows forward from the two leading candidates in the election snapshot picture in the references page? Did they abstain or were their votes (not even their own vote) not cascaded forward

Re: [Election-Methods] delegate cascade

2008-07-27 Thread Juho
On Jul 26, 2008, at 12:41 , Michael Allan wrote: OK. The dynamic is complex, and hard to predict. I'm curious to see what happens in reality. Marcus Pivato said there's no way to model this stuff in vitro (simulations), we have to run it in vivo. I think it is possible to find and study

Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting

2008-07-27 Thread Aaron Armitage
--- On Sun, 7/27/08, James Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is a consequence of your interpretation of how the voting system is supposed to work and what the voting system is supposed to be doing. But that's not what IRV is about. As I said in the previous message, the origins of

Re: [Election-Methods] Fwd: [election_leaders] Is IRV Hurting Minorities in Fair Vote Home Town?

2008-07-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:49 PM 7/23/2008, Kathy Dopp wrote: Thought this list might be interested in this real world example of IRV. It turns out that Fair Vote Director Rob Richie's home town of Takoma Park Maryland, the home base for IRV, has Zero (0) zilch NADA minority representation. And voter turnout flat

Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting

2008-07-27 Thread Dave Ketchum
HUH!!! How did we get here, where the topic is IRV??? Plurality with runoff: If Plurality fails to produce a winner. then the leading candidates - usually two - are voted on in a separate election. Exhaustive Ballot: If Plurality fails to produce a winner, then the candidate with the

Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting

2008-07-27 Thread Aaron Armitage
--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Terry Bouricius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Terry Bouricius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 2:26 PM While I agree that core support is not always

Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting

2008-07-27 Thread Terry Bouricius
Different election methods provide different incentives to candidates...Under IRV, or two-round runoff, a candidate who is nobody's first choice cannot win (they will be eliminated) even if this candidate would be a good compromise (or merely an inoffensive candidate avoiding all controversial

Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting

2008-07-27 Thread Juho
On Jul 27, 2008, at 22:26 , Terry Bouricius wrote: While I agree that core support is not always well measured by first choices (multiple clones can make all these clones appear to have little core support, where any of them would appear to have massive core support running alone). However,

Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting

2008-07-27 Thread Aaron Armitage
--- On Sun, 7/27/08, Terry Bouricius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Terry Bouricius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 3:32 PM Different election methods provide different

Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting

2008-07-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:30 AM 7/27/2008, James Gilmour wrote: As I said in the previous message, the origins of IRV are in the Exhaustive Ballot, and in the Exhaustive Ballot there is no possibility of looking at the entire ballot. Can you provide a source for the claim that the origins of IRV are in the