From: Dave Ketchum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [EM] Why We Shouldn't Count Votes with Machines
>
> Regrettably James is making an incorrect analysis of the problem.
I believe that is a mischaracterization because James' prior email
simply cited some recent articles.
> BETTER to accept tha
Regrettably James is making an incorrect analysis of the problem.
Agreed that there have been some expensive disasters associated with
computers and voting.
ASSUMING computers were as unreliable as James' sources imply, we had
best retreat from our computer-based civilization, much of which
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> True. I just gave it as an option for the perfectionists who aren't
> satisfied with Webster, or for the case where the election system is so
> complex that adding the calculation wouldn't be noticed in theg rand s
Yes, security might force us to use simpler solutions like ballots to
be similar, votes to be shorter (e.g. only two or three rankings
allowed), and even to reduce the number of candidates. The latter two
simplifications are already vote buying / coercion oriented.
Security might also force
The idea of an appropriate size circle around candidates home (or
home district) sounds like a pretty safe and simple approach. That
gives also the voters a natural explanation to why some of the
familiar candidates are on the list and some not.
Dynamic districts may also be seen to fix som
Raph Frank wrote:
On 8/26/08, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Inputs are ranked ballots. Each voter starts with a weight of one. The
quota is Droop (Hare does much worse).
Can a voter skip ranks and also is there a limited number of ranks?
If you allow rank skipping, then a
Raph Frank wrote:
On 8/26/08, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No, it uses logarithmic and exponential functions to find the divisor
that corrects the bias that arises with certain assumptions about the
distribution of voters. See
http://rangevoting.org/NewAppo.html . Warren
Dancing on E-voting’s grave
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1227&tag=nl.e019
Election loser: touch-screen voting
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1185482.html
JG
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