Re: [EM] Is Condorcet The Turkey?

2003-06-11 Thread Dave Ketchum
trying with Condorcet? Dave Ketchum wrote For the American system either IRV or Condorcet will be more tolerant of third party votes than Plurality is, so we can expect more of them. Yes I agree. Skimming through the 2002 congressional results I noticed two significant organised groupings other

Re: [EM] Fwd: Is Condorcet The Turkey?

2003-06-18 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 03:47:10 +0200 (CEST) Kevin Venzke wrote: --- Dave Ketchum [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : (3) Strategy concerns, not necessarily catastrophic but enough to complicate voting. For example, under Condorcet voters have the ability to dump a low-utility Condorcet winner using

Re: [EM] Fwd: Is Condorcet The Turkey?

2003-06-18 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Forest Simmons wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Dave Ketchum wrote: ... To me Condorcet is about as simple as it gets - list the candidates in order, starting with your favorite and continuing until you care not which of the remainder wins (which can only

Re: [EM] Fwd: Is Condorcet The Turkey?

2003-06-24 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:22:26 +0200 (CEST) Kevin Venzke wrote: --- Dave Ketchum [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : So utility has SOME KIND of value which i have demonstrated I do not understand. How about letting me in on the secret. Maybe you can understand it in terms of strength

[EM] IRV vs Condorcet

2003-07-24 Thread Dave Ketchum
the remaining minority of the total ballots. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice

[EM] Voting debate - missing the target

2003-07-27 Thread Dave Ketchum
, beyond not reading the same kind of comlaints against them - and knowing they claim a 100 year history of learning to do it right.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what

Re: [EM] Request comments on MMP?

2003-07-28 Thread Dave Ketchum
when they complain that you do not have one), except they hope for profile information - you can skip most of this as I do, but they might do better with selecting ads for us if they had a clue as to what we might like. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave

Re: [EM] Voting debate - missing the target

2003-07-28 Thread Dave Ketchum
that this combination of statements, if true, identify the standards as being inadequate. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you

Re: [EM] Issues, Condorcet, and IRV (was: IRV vs. plurality)

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Ketchum
that an Approval voter can have set the cutoff too high, just as well as too low - in both cases the topic I see is whether the voter, after the votes get counted, could wish to have made a different decision as to cutoff. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave

Re: [EM] the name of the rose

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Ketchum
/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Re: Issues, Condorcet, and IRV (was: IRV vs. plurality)

2003-08-14 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:08:30 -0400 Eric Gorr wrote: At 3:03 AM -0400 8/8/03, Dave Ketchum wrote: Except for cases involving IRV spoilers, winners are IDENTICAL - repeat IDENTICAL!!! Condorcet backers emphasize the IRV spoilers because those are the major reason for choosing Condorcet over

Re: [EM] serious strategy problem in Condorcet, but not in IRV?

2003-08-18 Thread Dave Ketchum
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Re: [EM] serious strategy problem in Condorcet, but not in IRV?

2003-08-19 Thread Dave Ketchum
any voter to convert to CB lets A win. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice

Re: [EM] serious strategy problem in Condorcet, but not in IRV?

2003-08-19 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:58:36 -0400 Stephane Rouillon wrote: Dave Ketchum a écrit : snip In Ranked Balloting: I read above of burying - ranking a competitor at the bottom of the pack, BUT: If the competitor is that undesirable, this is normal voting

Re: [EM] serious strategy problem in Condorcet but not in IRV?

2003-08-21 Thread Dave Ketchum
to me whether forbidding polling immediately before elections would help or hurt. Dave Ketchum On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:51:01 -0400 James Green-Armytage wrote: Dear election methods fans, In the sort of strategy scenarios that I have been talking about, one fairly positive possibility occurred

Re: [EM] Query for Approval advocates

2003-08-21 Thread Dave Ketchum
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Re: [EM] Cheering for simplicity

2003-09-02 Thread Dave Ketchum
to control who got to be officials, and when officials got replaced, WITHOUT doing elections. Dave Ketchum On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Forest Simmons wrote: I notice that all of the application that you mention, whether public or private, seem to assume human candidates and human

[EM] By the People

2003-09-02 Thread Dave Ketchum
be possible, but to be done only to recover from serious problems). On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:18:04 -0700 (PDT) Alex Small wrote: Dave Ketchum said: If I really wanted to broaden the field, I might get into ways for the people being represented to control who got

Re: [EM] Cycles and Stubborn (but rational) Voters

2003-10-09 Thread Dave Ketchum
will give you a tie to resolve by flipping a coin. Dave Ketchum On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Alex Small wrote: OK, let's imagine a simple situation: 3 voters, named A, B, and C. 3 candidates, named x, y, and z. Is it possible that, no matter what stances the 3 candidates take

Re: [EM] Kevin, you wrote on 4 Oct '03

2003-10-17 Thread Dave Ketchum
. The difference will be determined by how the other voters treat the two candidates. You seem to be trying to make something complicated when it does not need to be complicated. Are you sure? Donald, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY

Re: [EM] Intro to list (etc)

2003-10-27 Thread Dave Ketchum
. Dave Ketchum On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:15:49 -0800 Rob Brown wrote: Hi all, I have lurked on this list on and off for a few years (the whole Nader thing in 2000 really got me interested in how thorougly broken plurality systems are). Now I'm working on a web-based Condorcet based election

Re: [EM] How to vote cards for Approval?

2003-10-31 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:23:08 + Gervase Lam wrote: Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:55:07 -0500 From: Dave Ketchum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EM] Displaying intermediate results in Condorcet-based elections (re: Rob Brown's original question) Someone mentioned Approval - I object for, while

[EM] DRE voting equipment - Linux - Open source

2003-11-10 Thread Dave Ketchum
? Regards, Bo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list

Re: [EM] untraceable receipts

2003-11-15 Thread Dave Ketchum
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Re: [EM] Electronic Voting Bill of Rights?

2003-11-15 Thread Dave Ketchum
, consistent with its importance. MUST respect the secrecy of my vote. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace

Re: [EM] Electronic Voting Bill of Rights?

2003-11-15 Thread Dave Ketchum
anything. The only thing that can be done is to take a copy of the floppy before it is used and after all the voting machine are started... but this is not done!!! I assume it would have cost too much to have two set of copies. ;-) David GLAUDE Dave Ketchum wrote: 1. MUST enable potential

Re: [EM] Re: touch screen voting machines

2003-11-16 Thread Dave Ketchum
election without technical problem... be it hardware or software. Confidence in the result and user acceptance of electronic voting decrease each time. ;-) David GLAUDE -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687

Re: [EM] Re: touch screen voting machines

2003-11-16 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 02:28:12 +0100 David GLAUDE wrote: Dave Ketchum wrote: I was around when Ada (the language) was born and, unless it has improved A LOT, better if it had died YOUNG. I would have more hope for Java or Linux. Ada did reborn in 93 when the X of ADA 9X became 3. Could

Re: [EM] Electronic Voting Bill of Rights?

2003-11-17 Thread Dave Ketchum
and less data to forward or to publish as a public record (do it once and be done) than the IRV choices. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done

Re: [EM] Electronic Voting Bill of Rights?

2003-11-17 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:37:09 + Gervase Lam wrote: Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:59:28 -0500 From: Dave Ketchum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EM] Electronic Voting Bill of Rights? It depends on whether you do Disk-At-Once or Track-At-Once recording. If you do Disk-At-Once (i.e. write all

Re: [EM] Electronic Voting Bill of Rights?

2003-11-18 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:46:11 +0100 David GLAUDE wrote: Dave Ketchum wrote: We are getting in pretty deep here. I will repeat what I have said a few times: Vendor (whoever has this responsibility) writes program (whatever is standard and in common for all precincts using this program

Re: [EM] Re: touch screen voting machines

2003-11-19 Thread Dave Ketchum
on a small random sampling of the ballots would be a viable alternative to ballot serialization.) The statistics problem is not that simple, for you do partial or complete recounts of precincts, plus validation of central reporting and arithmetic. Ken Johnson Dave Ketchum wrote: I wrote on Mon, 17 Nov

[EM] DRE voting equipment - Linux - Open source

2003-11-19 Thread Dave Ketchum
]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list

[EM] An urgent plea for your assistance -- this is NOT spam!]

2003-12-15 Thread Dave Ketchum
Kevin Shelley mandated that Californians be provided with a verifiable paper trail in future elections: http://www.ss.ca.gov/executive/press_releases/2003/03_106.pdf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026

Re: [EM] An urgent plea for your assistance -- this is NOT spam!]

2003-12-15 Thread Dave Ketchum
not compile and if it is compiled, then the behaviour is undefined and maybe unpredictable. Will it be DESKEYLEN-1? DESKEYLEN? or DESKEYLEN+1? or it depend on stack usage durring interrupt (IRQ). David GLAUDE Forest Simmons wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Dave Ketchum wrote: Further, if we frown

Re: [EM] 2nd Matt reply--12/20/03

2003-12-22 Thread Dave Ketchum
, for the words were not insulting in American English. BTW, to Craig: you need to remember that what works for you at home is not necessarily workable here. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026

Re: [EM] To Bill Lewis Clark re: stepping-stone

2004-01-24 Thread Dave Ketchum
might be a good stepping-stone, after all? You have yet to show that IRV provides any benefit over Condorcet. AGREED. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would

Re: [EM] To Bill Lewis Clark re: stepping-stone

2004-01-26 Thread Dave Ketchum
their desires more completely - which OFTEN makes a difference. Bart -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want

Re: [EM] Condorcet for public proposals - IMV

2004-01-27 Thread Dave Ketchum
. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http

Re: [EM] To Bill Lewis Clark re: stepping-stone

2004-01-27 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:11:32 -0800 (PST) Forest Simmons wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Dave Ketchum wrote: IRV is not as similar to runoff as some claim - at runoff time I know the result of the original vote; with IRV I must do all of my ranking at one time. For sincere voters, i.e

Re: [EM] Condorcet for public proposals - Tounament

2004-01-28 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:28:52 -0800 Ernest Prabhakar wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for the input, very helpful. More comments below: On Jan 27, 2004, at 7:29 PM, Dave Ketchum wrote: I like what Ernest writes, though I see a bit of room for improvement and suggest tournament as a less foreign

Re: [centroids] [EM] Condorcet for public proposals - Tounament

2004-01-28 Thread Dave Ketchum
significant ranking. That is my 2 cents worth for now. Chris -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work

Re: [EM] To Bill Lewis Clark re: stepping-stone

2004-01-28 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:09:00 -0800 (PST) Forest Simmons wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Dave Ketchum wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:11:32 -0800 (PST) Forest Simmons wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Dave Ketchum wrote: IRV is not as similar to runoff as some claim - at runoff time I know

Re: [EM] Condorcet for public proposals - Tounament

2004-01-29 Thread Dave Ketchum
other candidates may be listed. NOTE: We need extra effort on Condorcet vs IRV because these two are similar. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want

Re: [EM] Real IRV Ranked Ballots

2004-03-02 Thread Dave Ketchum
justify giving A a win, when most voters agree B is better? Could be A is anti-abortion and B is prochoice. C agrees with B as to prochoice but disagrees with B as to some social security detail. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave

Re: [EM] Real IRV Ranked Ballots

2004-03-02 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:11:35 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Ketchum wrote: How does IRV justify giving A a win, when most voters agree B is better? (Minus the backstory:) So you insist on leaving out my message, making the example empty. 40 A 29 B 31 C,B A has greater depth

Re: [EM] Arrow's axioms an alternative to elections

2004-03-05 Thread Dave Ketchum
by the other parties. Therefore, my country is quite a good example of the democratic power to citizen ;-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done

Re: [EM] Strong FBC--This time it's personal! ; )

2004-03-13 Thread Dave Ketchum
]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Introductory Message

2004-03-15 Thread Dave Ketchum
]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list

Re: [EM] District continuity preserving re-districting

2004-03-15 Thread Dave Ketchum
]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list

[EM] Email standards:

2004-03-16 Thread Dave Ketchum
Doreen - please get help to attend to telling us in the email: Who you are replying to, such as James G. When they wrote. Which are their words, and which are yours. Without these, it gets too confusing for anything except a 2-person conversation. Dave Ketchum. On Tue, 16 Mar

[EM] Primaries?

2004-03-27 Thread Dave Ketchum
]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] Primaries?

2004-03-29 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:03:18 -0800 (PST) Forest Simmons wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Dave Ketchum wrote: Original Message From: Bart Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: EM List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EM] Argument for Approval Primaries Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:49:40 -0800

Re: [EM] Primaries?

2004-03-30 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:49:15 -0500 Adam Tarr wrote: Dave Ketchum wrote: If a method is good enough to select a single winner in the general election, then it must be good enough, and most logical choice, for use in related primaries. It does not follow. An general election is a method

Re: [EM] Primaries?

2004-03-31 Thread Dave Ketchum
? Because that would be the most likely outcome if you use Condorcet. We surely don't need perfect PR in a primary, but some degree of PR is necessary, or producing more than one winner is often almost pointless. -Adam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum

Re: [EM] Primaries?

2004-03-31 Thread Dave Ketchum
to be simple, considering using the same method as in the general election qualifying as simple to learn. On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:47:40 -0500 Adam Tarr wrote: There's really only one issue left worth discussing in this thread, so I'll cut the rest out: Dave Ketchum wrote and I responded, et cetera

Re: [EM] March 29 Newsweek article on verifiable voting

2004-04-03 Thread Dave Ketchum
counts at end of election. BTW - the right should be enough to ensure compliance by most vendors; average voter is unable to do such inspection but a group of voters could pay someone willing and able. Cheers, - Jan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave

[EM] E-Voting

2004-04-03 Thread Dave Ketchum
]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] March 29 Newsweek article on verifiable voting

2004-04-05 Thread Dave Ketchum
could be written and used which appeared to conform, but destroyed secrecy and, perhaps, found a way to falsify ballot counts. Dave Ketchum On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 01:12:03 -0500Adam Tarr wrote: Dave Ketchum wrote: How about leaning on IMPORTANT topics: How well do these schemes attend to voter

Re: [EM] Re: Weighted Median Approval

2004-04-18 Thread Dave Ketchum
)/3 Is (2)/3 Is +.7 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election

Re: [EM] About IRV

2004-04-24 Thread Dave Ketchum
. While this method sounds simple, how do I vote among LIKE, who I obviously approve, HATE, who I obviously skip, and COMP, who I want to show as preferable to HATE, but NOT to aid COMP possibly beating LIKE? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108

Re: [EM] A Runoff type method for resolution of cycles incondorcet

2004-04-27 Thread Dave Ketchum
]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em

Re: [EM] electoral college/Serious thoughts

2004-04-27 Thread Dave Ketchum
]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] questions about SF's version of IRV

2004-05-01 Thread Dave Ketchum
other methods, for that matter. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election

Re: [EM] electoral college/Serious thoughts

2004-05-01 Thread Dave Ketchum
above puzzles - most of this thread is about President and EC, which does not care much about how many parties. Electing House and Senate is where duopoly gets active, and where ranked ballots could do some good. - Curt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave

Re: [EM] electoral college/Serious thoughts

2004-05-01 Thread Dave Ketchum
? Curt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list

Re: [EM] electoral college/Serious thoughts

2004-05-03 Thread Dave Ketchum
? Curt -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see

Re: [EM] electoral college/Serious thoughts

2004-05-03 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Sat, 01 May 2004 22:16:04 -0500 Adam Tarr wrote: Dave Ketchum wrote: Adam seems to dream of some magic that would make an amendment doable: His magic is not convincing. I never said That the change I suggest would make passing an amendment a snap. You made a specific point, and I

Re: [EM] IRV - how many candidates per party?

2004-05-07 Thread Dave Ketchum
]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em

Re: [EM] Introductory Message

2004-05-08 Thread Dave Ketchum
country with such silly limit? David GLAUDE Dave Ketchum wrote: Presently we vote for the parties that comprise the Knesset separately from the PM. I should like to see voter ratings of 1 - 120 (120 corresponding to the number of seats in the Knesset) for the parties that are contending for seats

[EM] Robert's Ruls of Order

2004-05-18 Thread Dave Ketchum
Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info

Re: [EM] IRV's majority winner. What if we let the people choose?

2004-05-19 Thread Dave Ketchum
that there is no reason to vote away from their desires. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice

Re: [EM] Ease of Voting

2004-05-21 Thread Dave Ketchum
quantities. Mike Ossipoff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods

Re: [EM] Re: Condorcet strategy

2004-05-29 Thread Dave Ketchum
of what is normally election methods business. Perhaps one could be in power while considering taxes; another while considering spending? Chris Benham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026

Re: [EM] Condorcet strategy

2004-05-29 Thread Dave Ketchum
their preferences, they can steal the election for B. PROVIDED they have perfect information: To few and they get nothing. Too many and C wins - the voting pattern suggests this would be a catastrophe and whoever proposed it better hide in a hole. ... Dave Ketchum wrote: If this argument

Re: [EM] Condorcet strategy

2004-05-30 Thread Dave Ketchum
, or require foreknowledge of greater precision than possible with polling data. Also, Dave Ketchum wrote: PROVIDED they have perfect information: To few and they get nothing. Too many and C wins - the voting pattern suggests this would be a catastrophe and whoever proposed it better

Re: [EM] To James re: ATLO

2004-05-30 Thread Dave Ketchum
]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list

Re: [EM] Runoff vs IRV

2004-06-03 Thread Dave Ketchum
Around and around. Seems like our proper position is that each of these are too crippled to deserve being adopted as new by any public election. Which leaves promoting better understanding between Condorcet and these, and anything else with tolerable health. Dave Ketchum On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 04

Re: [EM] Wikipedia

2004-06-05 Thread Dave Ketchum
. Then a second place where only what is agreed on gets stored (perhaps multiple versions side by side when agreement does not exist. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would

Re: [EM] Top Three Condorcet

2004-06-09 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Forest Simmons wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Dave Ketchum wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Forest Simmons wrote: If I understand correctly, Beat Path, Ranked Pairs, MinMax, and all of the other serious Condorcet methods are in agreement (except

Re: [EM] Top Three Condorcet

2004-06-09 Thread Dave Ketchum
including such activity should be required to have their own NON-conflicting names. Some of what I read implies the voter specifying a threshold, dividing ranks into better and worse - I do not object to ballots with this feature also being called Condorcet. END Dave Ketchum On Wed, 9 Jun

Re: [EM] Top Three Condorcet

2004-06-09 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 23:49:17 +0100 James Gilmour wrote: Dave Ketchum wrote: To anyone else reading, my claim is: With the Condorcet method(s), the voter ranks all candidates liked better than last (optionally including ranking last). I asked: Is it necessary for a voter to rank ALL

Re: [EM] Top Three Condorcet

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Ketchum
a class of methods - that is expected in EM and, occasionally, something good comes of it, BUT: Forest uses Condorcet in the group name. I claim that word should be reserved for methods using the ranked ballots I (and others) expect for Condorcet methods. Dave Ketchum On Thu, 10 Jun 2004

Re: [EM] Single Winner Systems categorization

2004-06-11 Thread Dave Ketchum
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[EM] Who are we?

2004-06-12 Thread Dave Ketchum
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Re: [EM] equal rankings IRV

2004-06-13 Thread Dave Ketchum
not liking IRV, I DO NOT like adding this complication to it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work

Re: [EM] non-deterministic methods for better strategy proofness

2004-06-13 Thread Dave Ketchum
I get dizzy on his one but, if a majority of voters prefer B, why do they not simply vote B, and quit talking about strategy? Dave Ketchum On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:38:36 +0200 Jobst Heitzig wrote: Markus mentioned Pattanaiks work on strategy-proofness, and I read the book in the meantime

Re: [EM] Re: Chris: Approval vs IRV

2004-06-13 Thread Dave Ketchum
On un, 13 Jun 2004 05:51:13 +0200 (CEST) Kevin Venzke wrote in part: Chris, First of all it seems you won someone over; congratulations: Dave Ketchum wrote: If two voters rank A=B, the effect should be the same as if one ranked AB and the other ranked BA. Dave didn't say anything about no votes

Re: [EM] equal rankings IRV

2004-06-14 Thread Dave Ketchum
James Green-Armytage wrote: Dave Ketchum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For what follows voting is: 1 X (A or B or C) 3 D 3 T (troublemakers) Without equal rankings T votes are scattered to A, B, C, and D wins OOPS - T votes go to such as ABC, so X wins as they desire, but they get no special credit

Re: [EM] Re: AB, BA, A=B

2004-06-14 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:37:41 +0200 (CEST) Kevin Venzke wrote: Dave, --- Dave Ketchum [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Dave Ketchum wrote: If two voters rank A=B, the effect should be the same as if one ranked AB and the other ranked BA. Dave didn't say anything about no votes for truncated

Re: [EM] Re: AB, BA, A=B

2004-06-15 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:08:35 +0200 (CEST) Kevin Venzke wrote: Dave, --- Dave Ketchum [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : If two voters rank A=B, the effect should be the same as if one ranked AB and the other ranked BA. If you want this behavior then you have to use Margins. Sez WHO? Sez anybody

Re: [EM] Ballot initiative in Colorado

2004-06-16 Thread Dave Ketchum
a present of about 10 votes. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you. If you want peace, work for justice

Re: [EM] Margins

2004-06-20 Thread Dave Ketchum
, --- Dave Ketchum [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : If the voter leaves two candidates unranked, don't count that as a half vote for each, count it as zero for each. But if the voter explicitly ranks two candidates as equal, count that as a half vote for each. Since you argue for it, I want to name

Re: [EM] Nader could designate same electors as Kerry

2004-07-03 Thread Dave Ketchum
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Re: [EM] Condorcet strategy and weighted pairwise method

2004-07-20 Thread Dave Ketchum
of doing and understanding? Dave Ketchum On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:30:49 -0400 James Green-Armytage wrote: Dear election methods fans, Heavens, this is strange... this is the longest gap I've experienced since I've been on the list. Is everyone at the beach or something? I hope so, I guess; that's

Re: [EM] Condorcet strategy and weighted pairwise method

2004-07-20 Thread Dave Ketchum
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 03:35:00 -0400 James Green-Armytage wrote: James Green-Armytage here, replying to Dave Ketchum. Is this method worth the pain? There is no pain involved. You are simply giving the voters the option of supplementing their ranking info with ratings. If they don't feel like

Re: [EM] proxy system proposal

2004-08-02 Thread Dave Ketchum
be enough work to deserve a little pay (but the passing on passes on ALL the relevant voting power). Dave Ketchum On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 00:21:51 -0400 James Green-Armytage wrote: Stephane Rouillon wrote: I cross-read all your stuff and I did not see anything about my main preocupation (not problem

Re: [EM] Condorcet in 12 words or less

2004-08-19 Thread Dave Ketchum
I do not like the word runoff for Condorct, so offer: Condorcet (ignoring cycles): Count ranked ballots as in a tournament among all candidates. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026

Re: [EM] Definition of preferential voting

2004-08-19 Thread Dave Ketchum
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Re: [EM] Definition of preferential voting

2004-08-22 Thread Dave Ketchum
comments. Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]people.clarityconnect.com/webpages3/davek Dave Ketchum 108 Halstead Ave, Owego, NY 13827-1708 607-687-5026 Do to no one what you would not want done to you

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