[EM] Re: Letter to author of voting system article

Paul Kislanko kislanko at airmail.net
Wed Apr 13 20:20:19 PDT 2005


Mike, I mean no offense, but if you didn't know to whom you were writing a
letter, why do think it's important for voters to know strategies and such
when considering which voting methods to employ?

C'mon. If you cared enough to cc the list, either you were cc'ing the list
or making something up. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: election-methods-electorama.com-bounces at electorama.com 
> [mailto:election-methods-electorama.com-bounces at electorama.com
> ] On Behalf Of MIKE OSSIPOFF
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:10 PM
> To: election-methods at electorama.com
> Subject: [EM] Re: Letter to author of voting system article
> 
> 
> Ralph--
> 
> I'd said:
> 
> >I sent this comments letter to the author of an article on
>    voting systems:
> 
> You replied:
> 
> it would help a
> lot if you said what article you are referring to and where
> it can be found. It would help to know what provoked your
> detailed response.
> 
> I reply:
> 
> Yes, of course that should be posted too. I should have 
> written that down at 
> the time, but I only wanted to answer it.  But I'll find the 
> article. It was 
> by a woman, whose first name probably began with "K". Kristin, maybe.
> 
> The article described IRV, Borda, and Approval, giving the 
> arguments of 
> those methods' proponents and opponents in a balanced way.
> 
> When I find the article, I'll post it here. The article was 
> from a website 
> that someone sent me a link to. I'll find it and post the 
> article. Then, in 
> a separate posting, I'll try to post the comments to the 
> article, though 
> there might be too much of that to post in one posting. 
> Maybe, then, I'll 
> divide it into several postings.
> 
> Also, someone asked me where I found the letter that I posted 
> as "Letter 
> from a member of the public". That letter was among the 
> comments to an 
> article that I reached via a link from the electorama homepage, if I 
> remember correctly. I'll find that article too, and post it, 
> and will tell 
> the URL of the article and the comments, including that 
> person's letter (A 
> letter from me is there too).
> 
> Mike Ossipoff
> 
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