[EM] F922

2013-01-18 Thread Michael Ossipoff
In my long participation at EM, and other voting-system forums, and other forums on various other topics, I've encountered many time, all of the dishonest debate tactics. Jameson hasn't invented a new one, but he's taken angry, hypocritical injured innocence to a new extreme. The re-use and

[EM] How we can get a better voting system. Injured innocence.

2013-01-18 Thread Michael Ossipoff
In my long participation at EM, and other voting-system forums, and other forums on various other topics, I've encountered many time, all of the dishonest debate tactics. Jameson hasn't invented a new one, but he's taken angry, hypocritical injured innocence to a new extreme. The re-use and

Re: [EM] Canadian politician supports a preferential ballot, or a ranked ballot

2013-01-18 Thread Jameson Quinn
2013/1/18 Kristofer Munsterhjelm km_el...@lavabit.com On 01/17/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Fobes wrote: Soon enough, just as has happened in Aspen (CO) and Burlington (VT), the weaknesses of IRV counting will get exposed. In the meantime, just getting people to talk about, and think about, the

Re: [EM] Clean Government Alliance

2013-01-18 Thread Richard Fobes
On 1/17/2013 10:49 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: The general pattern I was trying to think of, in any case, was this: the society is too far in one direction (according to the people). Candidate X has a position solidly on the other side and brings the policies in that direction. As X

Re: [EM] Canadian politician supports a preferential ballot, or a ranked ballot

2013-01-18 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 1/18/13 1:52 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: On 01/17/2013 06:07 PM, Richard Fobes wrote: Soon enough, just as has happened in Aspen (CO) and Burlington (VT), the weaknesses of IRV counting will get exposed. In the meantime, just getting people to talk about, and think about, the