Re: [EM] Voting systems theory and proportional representation vssimple representation. (Abd ul-Rahman Lomax)

2010-03-15 Thread Raph Frank
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Kathy Dopp kathy.d...@gmail.com wrote: Yikes Raph. I didn't know that the method was potentially nonmonotonic.  I oppose all nonmonotonic methods. Yeah, I know. I brought it up in the interests of honesty. However, there is another thread titled A monotonic

Re: [EM] Voting systems theory and proportional representation vssimple representation. (Abd ul-Rahman Lomax)

2010-03-14 Thread Terry Bouricius
14, 2010 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [EM] Voting systems theory and proportional representation vssimple representation. (Abd ul-Rahman Lomax) On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Kathy Dopp kathy.d...@gmail.com wrote: A great proportional representation system, although I don't think there would

Re: [EM] Voting systems theory and proportional representation vssimple representation. (Abd ul-Rahman Lomax)

2010-03-14 Thread Raph Frank
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Terry Bouricius ter...@burlingtontelecom.net wrote: Ralph is describing the open list system used in such places as the Netherlands (nation-wide) and Finland (regionally). I was thinking of a system with 1 list per candidate, rather than 1 list per party. This

Re: [EM] Voting systems theory and proportional representation vssimple representation.

2010-03-13 Thread James Gilmour
Kathy Dopp Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:54 PM Abd ul, I agree with virtually all you say that I had time to read, but would prefer party list voting over asset voting simply because it forces the #1 elector, as you put it, to state in advance who he will nominate with any excess votes