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Tables of Bool flags, eliminating by truncating, groups of three. N

Craig Carey — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:23:31 GMT

Start: 9:48 NZT (= +12h) Thur 6 July 2006/ There is nothing in here except the construction of tables and then the creation of an argument saying that the

Re: [IRV-freewheeling] Fwd: [instantrunoff] Burlington exit poll sh

Craig Carey — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:55:11 GMT

... Correction: the first name is spelt "Hinda". Some articles will exist briefly at http://news.google.com/ In this message I say how to modify the

Re: [IRV-freewheeling] conversation with an approval voting advocate

Craig Carey — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:29:36 GMT

I shall skip sending this to my mailing list. Unfortunately this is a message of Mr Richie. Maybe some subscriber wishes to join. With my message of 14, there

REDUCE distro. Four candidate Tangent Polytope Axioms. (74kB)

Craig Carey — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:48:49 GMT

Announcement: There is a free version of REDUCE available at my http://tope.tigris.org/ website. It runs in Windows 9x. A better version is available from

Avy variant in logic expression (Avy variant of Alternative Vote)

Craig Carey — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:03:40 GMT

... A_Wins := ( d < a and d < b and d < c and ((b + c < a + d and a + da < b + db and a + da < c + dc) or (b + db < c + dc and ((2*c + 2*dc < a + b + da + db

Re: [EM] Did Mr May bungle 2 candidate SNTV election maths to hide

Craig Carey — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:43:13 GMT

At 2005-01-02 08:44 -0500 Sunday, Eric Gorr wrote to Election-Methods-List ... I could not find text of 1952 that is by Mr May in 1952. ... Here is a

Adding (AB) alters winners {A,B} into {A,B}

Craig Carey — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:06:16 GMT

I hadn't noticed before. that adding (AB) can cause the winners to change from {A,B} to {A,C}. Possibly a rule to stop that might be desired. It seems OK if

Participation Rule fails IFPP

Craig Carey — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:27:41 GMT

In Voting Matters Issue 6 of May 1996, a participation rule is declared, using these words: ______________________________________________________

Anti-junk mail messages auto-moderating started

Craig Carey — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:21:25 GMT

I have done something to reduce the amount of junk mail. I have reconfigured the server so that all new members are stuck in moderating at the time of joining.

Smallest Quota could be 1/3

Craig Carey — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:34:52 GMT

In the last message I defined a parameterized solution to the (AB),(B),(C) election. Then I let parameter x=1/6 and showed a contradiction. The plain (IFPP)

Is no monotonic 1/6 quota 3W1 method

Craig Carey — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:10:13 GMT

Summary: The IFPP method is the Alternative Vote with a 1/3 quota that finds losers. Its 1/3 quota could be lowered. Though Later No Harm has not effect, there

Failure to derive a Later No Harm method

Craig Carey — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:59:38 GMT

Failure in deriving a Later No Harm algorithm Intro: My first attempt failed due to a lack of strength of the assumption that First Past the Post is embedded

Re: Avy method

Craig Carey — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 04:15:14 GMT

I updated my http://www.ijs.co.nz/irv-wrong-winners.htm webpage in the last week. Now the page defines the Avy method. Previously it was mainly only defined at

the paradise on the earth for the catholics

catholicsab — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 02:51:23 GMT

This is the best place for you all the catholics to find friends who have the same faith and view whith you.You can find a friend who you have been searching

Shortest distance between two polytopes

Craig Carey — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 05:18:12 GMT

Finding the worst case unfairness (or whatever) in preferential voting methods, probably requires a new optimizer. Without a custom optimizer, 5 candidates is