In my previous post, I meant to say:
Voters shouldn't have strategic need to abandon their favorite.
I accidentally said should instead of shouldn't.
Polls:
Polls don't seem to be popular among EM's current frequent-posters.
Of course neither am I, because I frankly criticize some people's
In my most recent posting, I said:
I didn't ask to minimize the max s/p. I asked to minimize, over all of
the pairs of states, the amount by which one state's s/p differs from that
of the other.
The meaning is probably clear, but I should add ...maximum..., before the
word amount.
So it should
I'd said:
But then, why not make that goal explicit? Instead of dividing along the
shortest crossing line that halves the district, why not choose the halving
division so that it minimizes either the maximum or the sum of the two
resulting subregions?
I meant ...minimizes either the maximum or
When I said Approval strategy is a difficult problem, I meant Plurality
strategy is a difficult problem.
Let me repeat a little of what I said before:
It's difficult because of the difficulty of getting an agreement, among
those who want something better than the Democrats, regarding where they
When I said The pairwise-count problems that ICW doesn't get rid of don't
really seem problematic to me., I meant ICT,
and not ICW. ICW was a typo.
So I meant:
The pairwise-count problems that ICT doesn't get rid of don't really seem
problematic to me.
Mike Ossipoff
In my alternative definition of voting x over y, in the first sentence, I
accidentally wrote
is when I meant if. Here is the posting written correctly:
Alternative definition of voting x over y:
You're voting x over y if switching the names of x and y on your ballot could
change the winner
