[EM] How FairVote IRV propaganda has been very effective.

2008-12-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
FairVote is like a politician who tells people what they want to hear. That's the art of spin. When it gets repugnant is when what's being said is false. A post to the Approval Voting list, from which I'm still banned from posting, referred to an article in the LA times. It's worth noting that

[EM] Why I Prefer IRV to Condorcet

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Benham
Kristofer, You wrote (Sun.Nov.23): Regarding number two, simple Condorcet methods exist. Borda-elimination (Nanson or Raynaud) is Condorcet. Minmax is quite simple, and everybody who's dealt with sports knows Copeland (with Minmax tiebreaks). I'll partially grant this, though, since the good

[EM] Unmanipulable Majority strategy criterion (Kristofer)

2008-12-10 Thread Chris Benham
Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote (Sat.Nov.29): -snip- I don't know of any method that meets  the MDQBR you refer to that isn't completely invulnerable to Burial (do you?), so I don't see how that criterion is presently useful. That's odd, because the example I gave in a reply to Juho was yours.