[EM] Declaration Status

[Jameson Quinn]

I am still contacting high profile people who we'd like to sign it.
Personally, I'd avoid calling it "done" quite yet so that we can make minor
changes if these people request it. But if people feel otherwise, I'd be
willing to freeze it in its current state.

Here's the status of my efforts

   - I'm pursuing an introduction to Kenneth Arrow through a mutual friend.
   This should bear fruit in a couple of months (due to travel). Personally, I
   think it's worth the wait.
   - I don't have a contact for Maurice Duverger. Any help there would be
   good. He's 94 but apparently still going strong; he had an editorial in Le
   Monde just a year ago.
   - I could contact James Buchanan, but first I'd like to see if anyone
   here has some connection, so that he'd be more inclined to view us
   favorably.
   - I've written to Tony Downs. He's a second-tier name, but if he is
   interested, he would be a good person to introduce us to Buchanan.
   - I've talked with Steven Brams, Michel Balinski, and Rida Laraki. They
   all wish us luck, but refuse to sign because of some (in my view minor)
   issue they have with one of the systems we support. Brams has not
   definitively shut the door on signing.
   - Markus Schulze hasn't signed because we support too many systems, which
   in his view weakens the impact.
   - I have recently emailed James Green-Armytage, who is probably reading
   this mail here. No response yet.
   - I haven't contacted Nicholas Tideman. He may be reading this too, but
   if he's not, I would like to get as many high-powered names such as those
   above to sign on before we talk to him.
   - If we had a big-name author, I have a contact with the editor of *
   Science*, so we might be able to get an editorial published.
   - As you can see on the declaration, Warren Smith has already signed.

Meanwhile, I agree that a good css stylesheet would dramatically improve the
look of the declaration on http://www.votefair.org/declaration.html.

Jameson

2011/10/18 Andy Jennings <elections at jenningsstory.com>

> So the declaration is all done, right?  Ready to send out to everyone we
> think might be interested?
>
> I have a bunch of people I want to notify, but for some reason I don't feel
> like sending them to either the Google Doc or to Richard's page (
> http://www.votefair.org/declaration.html).  Niether seems appropriate for
> a first impression.
>
> Anyone else feel the same way?
>
> ~ Andy
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