Welcome Back Mike O

[Mike Ositoff]

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> Dear Mike O,
> 
>      Welcome Back!
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>      I liked what you said when you wrote: "The Lesser-of-Two-Evils problem
> is gotten rid of when we can cast a full-strength, reliably-counted vote
> for Favorite over everything, & also for our "lesser-evil(s) over our lasts
> choice." I plan to use this as a quote on my web site.


So far so good. Thanks for the agreement with that lesser-evil 
principle.


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>      Allow me to give my interpertation of what your words mean to me.
> 
>      Each voter is to have only one vote and that vote belongs to the


I most surely did not say that each voter has only 1 vote. How could
he/she have just 1 vote & still cast votes between several pairs of
candidates? You've already interepreted my words in a way that
inverts their obvious literal meaning.

I clearly was talking about votes between pairs of candidates. You
have somehow changed that to 1st choice totals.

> Favorite of the voter and shall stay with the Favorite for as long as the
> Favorite is a contender. In the event the Favorite is no longer a contender
> the vote is transferred to the next ranked choice of the voter.
> 
>      Now I realize that you and some others may not accept my
> interpertation, but for those that do, it follows that my interpertation is
> only satisfied by the single seat method known as Choice Runoff(aka Instant
> Runoff).

And you've also missed another phrase in what I said: 
"reliably-counted". If I've ranked David Peron over Gray Davis, and
Gray Davis over Dan Lundgren, and (hypothetically) Davis gets fewest
1st choice votes, & so you eliminate him, then my vote for Davis
over Lundgren is no longer counted. That isn't what we call
"reliably-counted".

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>      One of the faults of the ABC methods(Approval, Broda, Condorcet) is
> that they do not fulfill this interpertation of your words.

That's spelled "Borda", not "Broda". Only Condorcet(EM), among those
3 you list, fulfills my words. Your interpretation of my words is
something of yours that bears no resemblence to my words.

> 
> Regards,
> Donald
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