http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/ Range Voting Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:32:41 GMT Juho http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12720 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12720 ... Modern technology would make it easy to split the representative body in two and get some of the benefits of both large size and small size. Large size: - Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:59:01 GMT Raph Frank http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12719 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12719 ... Sorry, accidently hit send. Anyway, as I suggested in the thread on the 48 State splitline, another option would be to have a formal "grand committee". A Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:53:55 GMT Raph Frank http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12718 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12718 ... The other option is multi-level representation. If Asset was used, then you could have (near) full delegable proxy. Less complex, would be that the Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:41:55 GMT an.octopus http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12717 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12717 I think that having the number of seats being equal to the cube root of the population is rather elegant. That's the approximate ratio of other Western Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:51:34 GMT D Frank http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12716 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12716 Is there an optimum ratio of population to representation? The Founders arrived - on what basis I have never been able to discover - at a ratio of 30,000 to Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:18:00 GMT brokenladdercalendar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12715 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12715 My girlfriend works in donor relations at The Trust for Public Land. So she knows a lot about inspiring donors to give. She deals with people who write Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:13:59 GMT brokenladdercalendar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12714 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12714 ... This is a non-issue. I actually work as a professional web developer here in San Francisco. We do, you know, actual measurements of page load times and Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:16:45 GMT Joyce McCloy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12713 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12713 See comments, post comments. Viewpoints: 'Instant runoff': Better choice, lower cost ShareThis Buzz up! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:06:41 GMT Raph Frank http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12712 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12712 ... Ok, ... A change in the number of districts is always hard to deal with. About 17 of the States had apportionment changes in 2000. You could have a rule Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:07:29 GMT jimrtex4192 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12711 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12711 ... The first step to generate the 256*M regions ensures a reasonable degree of population balance since the regions apportioned to each county and city is Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:53:26 GMT WarrenS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12710 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12710 ... --I can see that fancy graphics such as the large images on those sites, would slow down load time a lot -- especially for the (luckily ever-smaller) class Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:20:25 GMT brokenladdercalendar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12709 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12709 Er... chicken-AND-egg. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:18:35 GMT brokenladdercalendar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12708 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12708 That is really interesting. I imagine those numbers would change appreciably if we had a site that looked like this. http://www.wcs.org/ Or here's the Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:29:25 GMT WarrenS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12707 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12707 The CRV website averages about 245 unique visitors per day, about 96% first-time visitors and 4% returners. Each visitor loads on average 1.91 pages from the Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:52:32 GMT Raph Frank http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12706 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RangeVoting/message/12706 ... The problem is that this means that the optimisation algorithm would have to maximise 2 measures, population balance and "compactness". You could have a