[EM] Russ, 12 April, '05, 0530 GMT

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Unless I'm mistaken, Russ announced RAV as a new proposal. Then, later it 
was pointed out (but not in a scolding way) that the method had been 
previously proposed by someone else.

If the archives show that I was mistaken about that, that doesn't mean that 
I lied. It merely means that I was mistaken. I said it only because it seems 
to me that Russ announced RAV as a new propopsal, and that later someone 
pointed out that it wasn't.

Russ says:

I still remember his pathetic lies about why he
dissociated himself from ElectionMethods.org. He claimed that I had
modified his definitions without his approval, which was a flat-out lie.

I comment:

"Flat-out lie". Russ feels that if he says something strongly enough, 
emotionally enough, to show how much he at least claims to believe it, that 
will convince others that it must be true.

Several people posted to EM to point out ambiguities and sloppiness in 
definitions at electionmethods. org. In each such instance, they were 
referring to Russ's rewordings of my definitions, and, in each instance, 
they were correct: Russ's rewordings of those definitions were ambiguous and 
sloppy. And, also in each such instance, when I posted my own definitions, 
the ones that Russ had replaced with his sloppifications, it was agreed that 
the sloppiness and ambiguity belonged to Russ's rewording, not to my own 
definition.

Russ seems to forget that he's making that claim on the same mailing list 
where these complaints about the sloppiness and ambiguity of his wording 
were posted.

Mike Ossipoff

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