http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/ Range Voting Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:47:09 GMT Jan Kok http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8566 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8566 Right now I feel like I've been struck with divine inspiration. Hope I don't wake up tomorrow feeling like an idiot. :-) "Town E-meeting" is a way to - Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:02:59 GMT brokenladdercalendar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8565 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8565 interesting: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/07/whats-a-vote-wo.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:50:43 GMT brokenladdercalendar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8564 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8564 http://confederalsun.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/rename-queens/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:04:17 GMT Dave Ketchum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8563 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8563 ... AGREED - we HAVE problems. ... He says fixing is doable - and I agree. ... I am leaving in his response, while not agreeing with it: Handicap Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:00:23 GMT cbenhamau http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8562 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8562 ... Bruce, Election method criteria are used to make distinctions among election methods, and so they aren't the same thing as abstract standards with no Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:03:59 GMT warren_d_smith31 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8561 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8561 Interview with Aviel Rubin, e-voting activist and professor of computer science By: Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld 9 July 2008 For more than a decade, Aviel Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:50:28 GMT Juho http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8560 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8560 ... This is true. (if we use simple rankings (also rankings with strong and weak preferences have been discussed (">",">>",">>>"))) The corresponding general Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:50:06 GMT Juho http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8559 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8559 ... Note that there is a difference between having an impact (or no impact or minor impact) on the results vs. on how people will vote. The latter may still be Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:50:00 GMT Juho http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8558 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8558 ... Ok. In that framework and with parties XL, L, C, R, XR the preferences of XL (extreme left) and L (left) could have been e.g. XL: L>C>R>XR and L: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:49:57 GMT Juho http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8557 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8557 ... There is a difference between the case where the voters e.g. had better stay at home or cast an insincere vote when 1) observing the situation before the Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:41:57 GMT Bruce R. Gilson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8556 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8556 ... defined ... me. ... "Majority Favorite" seems easy enough to understand, but I'm not certain I'd approve of it as a criterion. Suppose there are 26% of the Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:41:49 GMT warren_d_smith31 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8555 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8555 Glenn Reynolds writes: Felonies were once a fairly rare class of crime, a class that generally carried capital punishment as a more-than-theoretical Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:20:00 GMT warren_d_smith31 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8554 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8554 ... --well... there are some "lottery methods" that meet it, but they seem undesirable. Range & approval voting meet it in a weakened sense in the Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:47:02 GMT cbenhamau http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8553 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8553 ... Bruce, Is "Majority Favourite" (a candidate who is the favourite of more than half the voters must win) simple enough for you? Majority for Solid Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:44:14 GMT warren_d_smith31 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8552 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/8552 ... I do not know how rare they are. But I do know the "no impact" claim is false because of, e.g. http://rangevoting.org/LAgovs.html One can estimate rarity