On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Greg Nisbet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
democracy is distinct from consensus? Of course it is! I can win under
any reasonable voting method by pleasing less-than-everyone.
There are potential free rider issues with trying to please everyone.
In the case of a system
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:27:27 -0400 Fred Gohlke wrote:
Good Morning, Dave
re: A bit of history from my county:
County committee chair in one party got enough committee
members to let him substitute for them to be able to hold
committee meetings in a telephone booth if he chose to.
When
A while back someone posted a paper to this list talking about different
voting systems used in local government in the US. Particularly
memorable to me was that plurality block voting is still the most
popular for city council elections (ahead of districted plurality),
despite being at one point
I don't recall the paper Scott has in mind and I don't have a convenient
source for the number of local jurisdictions with various voting
systems, But I have some general knowledge about the constitutional
issue Scott raises.
The Supreme Court has never declared plurality block voting (aka
Kevin,
I think the version of DMC that allows voters to rank among unapproved
candidates fails mono-raise, and both versions are vulnerable to Pushover
strategy.
Would you say that that the plain all ranked are approved version
doesn't properly fail mono-raise but instead fails
