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Re: Who are the range voting (& GMJ) winners with strategic voting?

WarrenS — Sun, 19 May 2013 19:49:36 GMT

http://www.rangevoting.org/OrsayTable.html also discusses Balinski & Laraki's France 2007 MJ poll experiment. The "irrational attractor" for 0 score still

Re: Who are the range voting (& GMJ) winners with strategic voting?

WarrenS — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:54:08 GMT

... --Re David Duke, see http://www.rangevoting.org/LizVwiz.html Among {Roemer, Edwards, Duke}, Duke was the average-based-range and approval loser. Roemer was

Re: Who are the range voting (& GMJ) winners with strategic voting?

Jameson Quinn — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:35:45 GMT

2013/5/19 WarrenS ... GMJ can also be better if the lesser strategic incentive leads to less strategy. I guess this will be the case, but

Re: Who are the range voting (& GMJ) winners with strategic voting?

WarrenS — Sun, 19 May 2013 16:53:58 GMT

... --true. But (a) Whether any substantial fraction of voters will be affected by JQ's remark, is unclear. One way to tell that is to compare the France MJ

Re: Who are the range voting (& GMJ) winners with strategic voting?

Jameson Quinn — Sun, 19 May 2013 02:44:05 GMT

2013/5/18 WarrenS ... The important question is, where will the second-place GMJ candidate fall? If, on an A-F grade scale, you can be

Re: Who are the range voting (& GMJ) winners with strategic voting?

WarrenS — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:18:37 GMT

Similarly, the argument here: http://rangevoting.org/AppCW.html would seem to be as-valid for GMJ voting, as it is for range voting, with strategic voters in

Who are the range voting (& GMJ) winners with strategic voting?

WarrenS — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:09:31 GMT

This page http://rangevoting.org/PleasantSurprise.html describes Ossipoff's "pleasant surprise theorem" (or perhaps the word "theorem" is a bit too strong). It

Re: Tax cut STV

Edward "7.389056099" Earl — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:25:47 GMT

... This example highlights a major difference between Condorcet and IRV: Condorcet methods tend to elect compromise candidates. IRV tends to elect extremist

"Tax cut STV"

WarrenS — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:49:31 GMT

Eivind Stensholt: Single Transferable Votes with Tax Cuts, SIAM REVIEW 46,3 (2004) 417-442 Stensholt points out some known problems with STV multiwinner voting

Re: Polls about US senate filibuster 60% vs 51%

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:33:56 GMT

What is utterly missing from these polls is any testing of public knowledge as to why filibusters are possible? Why do they have that rule? The rule is a

Re: Polls about US senate filibuster 60% vs 51%

SomethingBenign — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:48:43 GMT

They don't really contradict each other. The way in which a question is asked will always influence the answer. In 3 of the 4 polls the word filibuster was

Polls about Proportional Representation

WarrenS — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:21:19 GMT

Here are a collection of polls in several countries about proportional representation of a few types, versus plurality in single-winner districts, versus a

Polls about US senate filibuster 60% vs 51%

WarrenS — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:09:49 GMT

As you can see, the below 4 polls on this contradict each other. Switch to simple majority: YES NO 42 45 39 51 50 44 40 34 FILIBUSTER Question:

Poll about PR in West bank, Gaza strip, Palestine

WarrenS — Thu, 16 May 2013 02:43:04 GMT

Late 2005, Birzeit University asked 1200 Palestinians: Do you support or oppose an election system based entirely on national blocs and proportional

Re: Iceland score voting study (I think)

WarrenS — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:20:07 GMT

This table they gave is (I think) comparing the official vote (top row) versus their sample's vote using same-as-official voting system.