On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Juho Laatu juho4...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Another approach to offering more
flexibility (maybe not needed) and
more strategy options (maybe not
wanted) is to allow the voter to
fill the pairwise matrix entries
in whatever way. This means that
also cycles can
Jonathan Lundell Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:02 AM
I'm not making a particularly important point here, only that if a
voter can pick a favorite (as required for plurality), then a voter
can build an ordered list.
I know it is straying from single-office single-winner elections in
Good Morning, Juho
Let me start by apologizing for my tardy response. Although it was not
the only cause, there was an extenuating circumstance: We were invaded
... by our offspring. My wife and I celebrated our 57th wedding
anniversary and, for some reason, our family thought that worthy
Kevin,
You wrote (25 Jan 2009):
I think there ought to be a clear distinction between criteria whose
violation is absurd no matter what the circumstances, and criteria
whose violation is absurd due to other available options.
I don't see why (particularly).
There are very few (named) criteria
Juho Laatu wrote:
I was thinking about public formal
elections (e.g. parliamentary). They
nowadays generally use secret votes.
Doing that same at the very bottom
level of a proxy system would not be
too difficult.
Sorry, I missed where you said current systems. So you're talking
about the
By a voting system of the public sphere, I mean...
Dave Ketchum wrote:
I do not see voters getting a choice. Whoever has power or
authority sets up the system. Voters, at most, can choose whether
to participate and/or complain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sphere
We're using
Dave Ketchum wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sphere
Thanks for this. I did a search on vot and am convinced voting is
not one of their topics - and suspect you stretched to tie it in.
I had to learn new things, and got stretched that way. I learned
about this concept of the
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:30:41 -0500 Michael Allan wrote:
Dave Ketchum wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sphere
Thanks for this. I did a search on vot and am convinced voting is
not one of their topics - and suspect you stretched to tie it in.
I had to learn new things, and got
