[EM] 05/16/02 - More Code Words:

[Narins, Josh]

Donald,

	I'm concerned about the amount of crack cocaine you are consuming. 

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From: Donald Davison [mailto:donald at mich.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 7:54 AM
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Subject: [EM] 05/16/02 - More Code Words:


05/16/02 - More Code Words:

Greetings list members,

Forest Simmons wrote: "Saying that "Condorcet Winner" is a code word for a
particular method is like saying that "Majority Winner" is a code word for
some particular
method."

Dear Forest, when you're right, you're right.

There is a code word term that includes the words `majority and winner'.

The term `true majority winner' are code words meaning that Approval Voting
is to be the standard to examine an election method and that the Approval
winner would be the `true majority winner' regardless of the fact that it
is mathematically impossible for any candidate to have a majority of the
votes when the voters cast two or more votes each.
    A majority of the voters is not a majority of the votes.  The code
words `true majority winner' really means `bogus majority winner'.


The words `compromise candidate' are also code words and they mean that the
best method would be a method that will not elect the first two candidates,
but instead it is to elect the third candidate over top of the first two -
even if the third candidate `doesn't have a pot to piss in' when it comes
to votes (like elect Nader over Bush and Gore).






Regards,
   Donald Davison, host of New Democracy at http://www.mich.com/~donald
                        Candidate Election Methods
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   |                        Q U O T A T I O N                          |
   |  "Democracy is a beautiful thing,                                 |
   |        except that part about letting just any old yokel vote."   |
   |                           - Age 10 -                              |
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    APV   Approval Voting
    ATV   Alternative Vote  aka  IRV Instant Runoff Voting  aka  IRVing
    FPTP  First Past The Post  aka  Plurality
    NOTA  None of the Above  aka  RON Re-Open Nominations
    STV   Single Transferable Vote  aka  Choice Voting  aka  Hare-Clark
          aka  Preference Voting  aka  Hare Preferential Voting

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