[EM] Reply to Moe's Multiple Winneres Revisted post:

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 03/22/01 Dear Moe St. Evergreen and cohorts, So, you are still looking for a multi-seat proportional method that is a bit better than Cumulative Voting. Do I have a deal for you? Yes, indeed I do, in fact, I have five better

[EM] Reply to Tom's IRV w/ties of 03/19/01

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 03/22/01 Greetings List, Tom Ruen wrote: Tom: "Approval is N one-vote elections for N candidates. Every voter gets up to N total votes." Don: Yes Tom, that is correct, Approval is the same as Plurality-at-Large, but that is nothing

[EM] New Book by Donald Saari:Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting

http://www.ams.org/bookstore-getitem/item=ELECT "Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting" Donald G. Saari, University of California, Irvine, CA Not yet published. Expected publication date is May 4, 2001 Description What does the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election have in common

Re: [EM] Reply to Tom's IRV w/ties of 03/19/01

Don, Thank you for your kind reply, but in the end, you are not quite right. Don said: Anytime you have two top candidates that you like equally, that will not be a problem with Irving. You merely chose anyone of the two as your first choice and the other as your second choice, it will

[EM] The recent spam storm

From: Enrique Bird Subject: [EM] Remove According to Conventional Wisdom, responding to the "remove" address in spam (junk email) is more likely to confirm that your addresss is still active, and encourage more spam. And it does seem unlikely that anyone who dumps trash in other

Re: Bad Condorcet winners?

Another *bad* winner example using +100 to -100 scale votes -- 2 A(1) B (0) 1 B (100) A (-100) 3 Guess who wins despite very low scale (SU) numbers ??? Does B (who may have voted for himself and really hates A) declare victory due to his high *average* (and above zero) SU

[EM] Right to Left Majority Losers

Using a place votes table, yet another tiebreaker involves a simple summing of place votes from the right to get majority losers when there is no Condorcet Winner. Example- 123 34 ABC 33 BCA 32 CAB 99 3rd plus 2nd place votes A 65 B 66 C 67 loses A beats B. Expanding to 4 choices

[EM] Election results and analysis: What are your favorite months?

Dear friends, Last week I asked you all to offer vote in a fun election to pick your favorite months. This was done as an approval-style election where youwere allowedtovote for as many choices as you like. This is an example for me how approval elections might work in practice, and an

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[EM] RE: Bad Condorcet winners?

I asked for discussion purposes -- 1. Who wants to elect the extremists (with their alleged *mandates*) ??? 2. Who wants to elect some *dull* median SU and/or *bad* Condorcet compromise candidates ??? D- Since some folks are clueless, I will answer my questions. 1. NO 2. YES as in ---

[EM] Dyadic Approval definition (continued)

Hi, EM list folks. I decided to make this continuation cumulative so that we can have the whole thing in one message (eventually). As in Rocky and Bullwinkle's Here's what happened in our last episode, there may be a few slight improvements in this version of the first installment. First