Kathy Dopp wrote:
I do not like this system and believe it is improper to call it
Condorcet. It seems to have all the same flaws as IRV - hiding the
lower choice votes of voters, except if the voter voted for some of
the less popular candidates. Thus, I can see there may be lots of
cases when
Greg Nisbet wrote:
my premise, poorly articulated, but my premise nonetheless is that an
adaptive voting method that takes into account voters' previous
behavior may be able to outperform OMOV in the long run on average.
That sounds somewhat like a prediction market, only discrete instead of
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm
km_el...@lavabit.com wrote:
Kathy Dopp wrote:
I do not like this system and believe it is improper to call it
Condorcet. It seems to have all the same flaws as IRV - hiding the
lower choice votes of voters, except if the voter voted for
Two are RRV
http://rangevoting.org/RRV.html
and asset voting
http://rangevoting.org/Asset.html
A recent real-world election that used RRV is described here:
June2011RealWorldRRVvotes.txt
In T.P.'s essay it'd be nice if he subdivided it into smaller chunks
with subheading titles, and
On 3.7.2011, at 18.49, Kathy Dopp wrote:
Someone from Europe on this list recently said that they did not like
the party list system. Why not? Party list seems like a fair, simple
system of electing legislators who represent people in approximately
the same proportion that they exist in the
On 3.7.2011, at 20.44, Toby Pereira wrote:
The problem I have with party list systems is that you do not elect
individuals but organisations, who can then put in who they like.
Closed and open party lists have different philosophy. Basic closed lists
contain an ordered list of candidates and
Thank you for your comments, Warren. I've modified the page a bit and put in
some subheadings.
You'll notice at the bottom of the page that I've mentioned that my version of
Proportional Range Voting is not equivalent to normal Range Voting where there
is a single winner. It's not simply a
First we have to recognise that there is no one voting system called party
list proportional representation. There are probably
as many variants of party-list PR as there are countries and jurisdictions
using such a system for their public elections.
However, these party-list PR voting systems
Thanks for the responses. In response to the party leaders having too
much control, I believe it is possible to make party-lists on the
fly from voters' own rank choice ballots in a way that the most voters
would naturally support -- which would put the control into voters'
hands and treat all
