[Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting (Chris Benham)

[Stéphane Rouillon]

Finally a question for my vacations!

I would use geothermia. Simply dig a long tube in the ground with the two 
halfs at different underground level and put the ends at differents levels 
of your house. It should pump cool air
from the underground to your basement, when it gets hot then to the upstairs 
where it goes through the second end far underground and back in the cycle. 
what is important is that the length
of the underground tubes is long enough so the pumping effect can drag the 
hot air form upstairs
stronger then the boussinesq force keeps it elevated (hot air is lighter).

So now can you acknoledge that IRV is better than FPTP ?
I can accpet IRV being worst than any other method (even if I do not agree 
all the time)
but FPTP has to be worst!

Steph, the canadian engineer in vacation in Cuba
PS: Maybe I should dig holes in the hotel, it is so hot!

>From: "Kathy Dopp" <kathy.dopp at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: kathy.dopp at gmail.com
>To: election-methods at lists.electorama.com
>Subject: Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting (Chris 
>Benham)
>Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:28:06 -0600
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>On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:00 PM,
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> > From: Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting (Chris
>
> >
> > Although Chris' voters changed their vote they didn't change their
> > opinions between the elections. If there are new candidates they may be 
>better than the old ones
>
>Juho,  In Chris' approval example, voters changed their approval votes
>for the existing candidates, not simply added approvals for new
>candidates.  The spoiler is a "nonwinning" candidate who changes the
>outcome of an election. I.e. If the new candidate wins, or does not
>change the outcome, he is not a spoiler.
>
>Apparently the voters *did* change their opinions between elections
>judging from their ballots - rather than using mindreading.  Now of
>course if you and Chris read all the voters' minds and every voter in
>the world thinks exactly like you and Chris imagine them to, then I am
>wrong. However, I prefer thinking that I can *not* know how all voters
>think or would strategize and to simply judge what a voting method
>does given the actual votes.
>
>Hey since you guys seem to think you are much smarter than I am and
>you like puzzles, solve this little (true situation) puzzle:
>
>The temperature outside my house is 90+ degrees today and inside my
>house is 68 degrees downstairs and 74 degrees upstairs at 5:20 p.m and
>this is the hottest it will get inside my house today. Yet I have no
>air conditioner, no fan, no swamp cooler, etc.  These same
>temperatures (roughly) exist inside and outside my house during the
>entire summer.
>
>How do I keep my house under 68 degrees inside (downstairs) and under
>74 degrees (upstairs) all summer with no air conditioner or swamp
>cooler when it is routinely in the 90s outside?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kathy
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