Re: [EM] good method ? was IRV ballot pile count (proof of closed form)

2010-02-15 Thread Kathy Dopp
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: I seem to be one of the few people on this list who recognizes that I don't read voters' minds and cannot convert one vote-type to another for voters. Kathy, there was no reading of voter's minds. What was

Re: [EM] good method ? was IRV ballot pile count (proof of closed form)

2010-02-15 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Jonathan Lundell wrote: On Feb 14, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: We may disagree with the counting method that is applied when 35:A 32:BC 33:C occurs, but it seems very clear that the Condorcet winner in this case is C, as you seem to agree with me in this case. Yes. The A

Re: [EM] good method ? was IRV ballot pile count (proof of closed form)

2010-02-15 Thread Dave Ketchum
Clearly there has been a lack of clarity in this thread. While others may have made the mess you joined in, seems like you might have stated your objections more clearly. From IRV ballot pile and previous discussion of such piles, the subject is IRV, a method that has rules. Then there