[EM] why 0-99 in range voting

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 11:13 PM 11/22/2006, RLSuter at aol.com wrote:
>abd at lomaxdesign.com writes:
>
> ><< In meetings, voting on multiple-answer questions is rare. >>
> >>
> >>Yes, but why? Because very, very few people -- probably
> >>less than 1% of U.S. citizens, are familiar with voting
> >>methods that can handle such questions in satisfactory
> >>ways.
> >
> >This is actually nonsense.
>
>No, it isn't nonsense at all,

"This"  was the argument that the reason why voting on 
multiple-answer questions is rare. It is rare because deliberative 
process is focused on yes/no questions on process itself. Further, 
Robert's Rules require *motions* to be concerned with a single 
question. While Range Voting and other multiple-choice methods are 
certainly of interest, how to incorporate this in deliberative 
process is less than obvious. That is, RV may well be useful to judge 
the sense of the meeting at a given time and to proceed, but 
ratification is still necessary, because RV can fail to discover a 
majority approval. (In fact, RV without an approval cutoff doesn't 
indicate approval clearly at *any* level).

And then Mr. Suter takes a discussion of ideas into the personal:

>  though I can understand how it
>could seem that way to someone who is so certain of some
>of his strongly held views of how the world works that he is
>incapable of seriously (much less carefully) considering
>conflicting alternative views -- or even, as in this case,
>considerately responding to people who express them.

Honi soit qui mal y pense.

It is far easier to identify offensive personality traits in others 
than to identify them in oneself.