[EM] Minmax under-representaton causes small-bias

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 01:34 PM 2/6/2007, RLSuter at aol.com wrote:
[a series of comments which appear to be motivated by animosity, from 
which I'm only extracting one.]
>As for the remainder of your comments, including your advocacy
>of Asset Voting, these are just the kinds of comments about "actual
>political work" that you have just claimed this list is not intended for.

I did not claim that this list was not "for actual political work," 
but that clearly it *was*, from the vast numbers of posts regarding 
it, clearly *for* theoretical work. Mr. Suter had decried theoretical 
analysis and discussion essentially on the basis that it was 
politically useless. So? Maybe now it is. Not necessarily forever.

>Asset Voting is actually a terrible as well as impractical form
>of representation. Any theoretical advantages it has are far
>outweighed by its serious theoretical disadvantages and its
>impracticality.

Note that there is a severe paucity of such comment. I haven't seen 
*one* theoretical disadvantage. But perhaps I've missed it. As to 
practicality, well, much discussion here is of methods that aren't 
practical *now.* But they might be someday, somewhere.

Mr. Suter's comments are essentially useless. If Asset is "terrible," 
either theoretically or practically, surely it would be useful to 
tell us *why* and *how*!