[EM] Re: IRV vs Range on totalizing machines

[Rob Lanphier]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 14:06 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:26 -0400, Warren Smith wrote:
> > Are you the same Scott Ritchie associated with the CVD, the important
> > pro-IRV-voting group?  If so, I believe we should talk.  I believe the CVD,
> > while having accomplished a great deal (and I'm sure you are a lot
> > more familiar with what those accomplishments are, and I would like to
> > know about them), is headed in some important wrong directions which
> > probably will assure failure.  (And I am not the only one who feels this way.)  
> 
> I've never really worked personally with them, but my name has appeared
> in so many places regarding voting it's likely the case that you're
> thinking of me.  Right now I'm involved with a very local campaign
> you've probably not heard of known as Davis Citizens for Representation
> http://www.davischoicevoting.org/ trying to use a multimember
> proportional STV method for our city council elections rather than
> plurality at large (which is rather common among American localities.)

Warren is probably thinking of Rob Richie, who is the executive director
of the CVD:
http://www.fairvote.org/about_us/richie.htm

Rob