Re: [EM] Approval-Runoff

2012-03-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:46 AM 3/10/2012, Andy Jennings wrote: - I like Abd's suggestion for extending it to partisan elections (each party only gets one slot in the approval round), but how are you going to do that? A party primary before the approval round? Maybe you could say that only the Republican who co

[EM] Approval-Runoff

2012-03-10 Thread Jameson Quinn
2012/3/10 Andy Jennings > > Story about Approval-Runoff: > I actually met with some state legislators last year and got one of them interested in approval voting. He was willing to introduce a bill allowing cities to try approval voting. (Arizona is at a disadvantage to other states, in terms of

Re: [EM] Approval-Runoff

2012-03-10 Thread Andy Jennings
Story about Approval-Runoff: I actually met with some state legislators last year and got one of them interested in approval voting. He was willing to introduce a bill allowing cities to try approval voting. (Arizona is at a disadvantage to other states, in terms of voting reform, because state

[EM] Missed opportunity, historically

2012-03-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
In the U.S. there have been three major advanced single-winner voting systems tried. Bucklin. Top-two runoff. Single transferable vote, recently called "Instant Runoff Voting" because it supposedly imitates TTR. All of these have been viewed as reforms, with enthusiasm, by political scientis

Re: [EM] Obvious Approval advantages. SODA. Approval-Runoff.

2012-03-10 Thread Jameson Quinn
2012/3/9 Kevin Venzke > Hi, > > *De :* Abd ul-Rahman Lomax > *À :* Kevin Venzke ; election-methods < > election-meth...@electorama.com> > *Envoyé le :* Vendredi 9 mars 2012 17h04 > *Objet :* Re: [EM] Obvious Approval advantages. SODA. Approval-Runoff. > > At 07:36 PM 3/8/2012, Kevin Venzke wro

Re: [EM] Obvious Approval advantages. SODA. Approval-Runoff.

2012-03-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
While discussion of strategies whereby a political party might attempt to manipulate Bucklin/runoff is interesting, we should be careful not to treat these "hazards" as if they were facts, unless there are facts to back them. The strategy mentioned, to clone a candidate, for a party to attem