On 2/18/2012 1:49 PM, Kevin Venzke wrote:
Hi Richard,
*De :* Richard Fobes
>
I do favor having more than two parties, but I don't see how three (or
more) strong parties can be accommodated until after Congress and state
legislatures use voting methods that are compatible with more than two
pa
David Wetzell, your reply reveals that we view the U.S. political system
very differently.
Here is a link to a "map" of the U.S. political system as I see it:
http://www.votefair.org/pencil_metaphor.html
"If the Republican party and the Democratic party are at opposite ends
of a pencil, m
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Hi Richard,
De : Richard Fobes
À : election-meth...@electorama.com
Envoyé le : Samedi 18 février 2012 14h47
Objet : Re: [EM] STV vs Party-list PR, could context matter?
I do favor having more than two parties, but I don't see how three (or more)
strong part
Hi David,
De : David L Wetzell
À : election-methods@lists.electorama.com
Envoyé le : Samedi 18 février 2012 14h10
Objet : Re: [EM] (Kevin Venzke) and James Gilmour.
You are supposed to get the EM list to agree first, before writing Soros
directly.
If ther
On 2/17/2012 12:54 PM, David L Wetzell wrote:
> From: Richard Fobes
> As for STV, going beyond two seats easily produces unfair results.
> And in the U.S. the results also would be quite unstable
> (i.e. not mesh well with the current two-party system).
>
> Can you elaborate?
> I
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:58 PM, James Gilmour wrote:
> David L Wetzell > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:31 PM
> > > James Gilmour: But why would you want all these differences
> > > and complications?
> >
> > dlw: Because context matters.
>
> I have great difficulty in believing that there ar
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Jameson:
You said that the F-preferring voters could let G win by merely approving both
F and G.
But maybe only a subset of the F voters are willing to try to keep G from
losing. Then, those few might need
to vote for G and not for F, in order to keep F from beating G in the initial
ballots-
> It seems to me that there would be a lot more candidates under SODA.
>> It's pretty hard to spoil the race and there is benefit to
>> be had in receiving some votes. It seems parliamentary that way. How many
>> supporters is too few to consider running?
>>
>>
>> Well, there is the 5% cutoff, bel
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