[EM] Poll Topic Nominations

[Tom Ruen]

Nominations for elections:

1. Time Machine - who shall we zap from history to meet in person and ask
questions?
2. What should be the minimum voting age?
3. What nickname should we give the new U.S. President?

Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "MIKE OSSIPOFF" <nkklrp at hotmail.com>
To: <election-methods-list at eskimo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 11:52 PM
Subject: [EM] Poll Topic Nominations


>
>
> I suggest that Don's decree for a poll on Presidential candidates of
> 2000 should be taken as a nomination for the demonstration poll's topic.
>
> Also, I'd like to suggest a few more. As much as I like the pizza topping
> and ice cream flavor nominations, there's no pizza topping or ice cream
> flavor that I don't like. There's no "greater evil".
>
> But there are some really abominable TV shows & movies. And so I'd
> like to add 2 more nominations: TV shows, and movies.
>
> That makes 8 nominations so far:
>
> A. Months
> B. List Conduct Petition
> C. Voting Systems
> D. Pizza Toppings
> E. Ice Cream Flavors
> F. TV shows
> G. Movies
> H. Presidential Candidates of 2000.
>
>
> Recent discussion brings out the desirability of doing a poll on
> voting systems. I wouldn't know how to vote on months.
>
> One thing--I've nominated a lot of topics. In Approval, if people
> use an estimated 0-info strategy, that typically would mean voting
> for more alternatives when the number of alternatives is increased,
> meaning that there could be a chance that I've made there be an unfairly
> large chance that one of my alternatives will win an Approval count.
> Voting an Approval balloting, then, you might want to compensate for
> that by not voting for a lot of my nominations.
>
> Anyway, should we say that as soon as there've been no nominations for
> 24 hours, the nominations will be closed, and that it would then be
> time to vote on the demonstration poll topic? Or should it be 48 hours?
>
> By the way, I actually did once conduct a vote on movies. I was in
> a group of 4 people who intended to go to a movie. We got a newspaper,
> and some people mentioned a movie, and I write a short list including
> those and a few other interesting ones. We voted by PC, with the idea
> that Smith//PC would have been too time consuming (SSD & BeatpathWinner
> weren't yet known to EM members at that time). Actually, Smith//PC
> probably wouldn't have taken too long.
>
> 3 of the 4 voters had as their 1st choice _A Man & a Woman_, a movie
> depicting how alcoholism affects a marriage. Sounds pretty dull.
> Someone noticed that that movie was my last choice, and said that
> since my 2nd choice was _The Mask_, and that was also nearly everyone's
> 2nd choice, that would be the right compromise. I said, "No, I insist
> on majority rule".  We went to _A Man & a Woman_, and it was
> _boring_!
>
> Mike Ossipoff
>
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