[EM] Good introductory site

[Bart Ingles]

I think the four criteria were chosen to demonstrate the impossibility
theorem.

As I indicated, it was an introductory site.  What I liked about it was
the fact that it touched on a few of the more the "classic" definitions,
problems, and methods, without being too open-ended.  Unless someone is
fairly dedicated to the subject, they're not likely to stick around long
enough to learn a whole list of criteria.  Hopefully anyone interested
will follow up on their own.

A few links would be nice, but this way you can choose your own to
accompany it, whenever you want to introduce someone to voting systems. 
It's good to have a few links on hand from a variety of sources,
especially those ending in .edu, to back up your own material.



MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
> 
> That website needs a lot of work. Its 4 criteria are so
> weak as to be useless. It doesn't say anything about what to
> do when pairwise-count methods don't find a BeatsAll winner.
>
> It does give Approval very fair mention. That's the one good
> thing about the website.
> 
> But its problems could be remedied by links to better websites,
> like my uk website, or the Approval website that you're preparing,
> or Russ's new Condorcet website, or the Boulder Colorado
> Approval website.
> 
> I'd write to them and suggest mutual links with these other
> websites, but they don't offer an e-mail address. Maybe one
> could infer one from their URL.
> 
> Until your Approval website is ready, there's my uk website,
> with good coverage of Approval, and the Boulder website.
> 
> I'm writing to Doris again tonight, or maybe tomorrow, to tell
> her that Russ has joined LWV, and to send her the URLs of
> the uk website, and Russ's website. By the way, Russ's website
> can now be reached via electionmethods.org
> 
> By the way, which of those "votingsystems" websites are still
> available. Did you buy all of them from Jon? Which one's are
> yours now, and which are still Jon's? I'd like to buy one of them
> for a website that I intend to put up soon. It will be very
> similar to my articles at the uk website, but my own website will
> be one that I can update more often. Also, it can have my
> Irving Answers article, and articles intended specifically for
> LWV.
> 
> Mike
> 
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