[Election-Methods] Bullet Voting in the wider media

Jonathan Lundell jlundell at pobox.com
Mon Oct 8 18:00:23 PDT 2007


On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Gervase Lam wrote:

>> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:34:10 -0700
>> From: Jonathan Lundell
>> Subject: Re: [Election-Methods] Bullet Voting in the wider media
>
>> On Oct 7, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
>>
>>> At 11:53 AM 10/7/2007, Brian Olson wrote:
>
>>>> http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/07/
>>>> ballot_query_to_bullet_or_not_to_bullet
>
>> It may be worth noting (it goes without saying in the US) that the
>> article is referring to n-seat plurality elections ("vote for no more
>> than n" and top n win).
>
>> We should have another name for it.
>
> This the plurality version of Bloc (or Block) Voting:

I meant: another name for "insincere" voting.

>
> <http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Bloc_vote>
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloc_voting>





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