[EM] Publication suggestions for Declaration

[Jameson Quinn]

Sorry, I've been busy and I've let this matter stagnate a bit.

Yes, I believe that the declaration is either 99% or 100% done. I had hoped
to get feedback from a few academics who are non-participants or
occasional-participants here before I declared it officially frozen, but
that is not going as well as I'd hoped. I'd be willing to try once more with
those people before we declare it 100% done, but I would understand if
others would rather just go with what we have. Either way, I think that
posting it here on the list would be a good step now.

Jameson

2011/9/29 Richard Fobes <ElectionMethods at votefair.org>

> In cleaning up past Election Method messages I see that this suggestion
> from Ralph Suter was not answered.  He suggests including in our Declaration
> a list of suggested actions that can be done by people in various
> (non-government-election?) situations to help adopt our recommended
> better-than-plurality methods.  That list has been a part of the declaration
> for some time.  I included such actions in the draft I wrote, and Jameson
> Quinn has nicely refined those suggested actions.
>
> I think the Declaration is done.  I don't know what Jameson's plans are for
> the next step.  I suggest at least posting the latest version to this forum
> because it has been refined significantly since it was last posted here.  (I
> can do so if requested, yet I don't want to interfere with any plans that
> Jameson has in mind.)
>
> Richard Fobes
>
>
> On 9/13/2011 1:26 PM, Ralph Suter wrote:
>
>> Another option that would require more planning and work but could
>> attract much more attention and have a vastly greater long-term as well
>> as short-term impact would be to distribute a news release (possibly
>> with the donated help of a good PR firm with experience in news release
>> writing and distribution - ideally, to both US and international print
>> and online news outlets) announcing the declaration and inviting the
>> publication of stories derived from the release as well as stories
>> involving additional reporting and interviews.
>>
>> To increase the impact of such a release, it would help if the
>> declaration included well-thought-out concrete steps that interested
>> readers could take to help the cause of improving methods used in real
>> world public elections and other kinds of collective decisionmaking
>> activities. Suggested steps could include ones involving contributions
>> of money as well as time to specific activities and programs, including
>> ones that don't yet exist (such as proposed research and promotional
>> efforts and organizations) as well as existing ones - everything from
>> lists like this one that people could join to already established
>> programs and organizations that people could join or support.
>>
>> If distributed this way, the declaration could attract not only much
>> more attention but could attract the attention of individuals and
>> organizations (foundations and other kinds) that may be interested in
>> and able to contribute significant funding to efforts to develop and
>> promote improved election methods.
>>
>> If there is support for the idea of such a news release, I suggest
>> taking a little more time to develop a list of existing and potential
>> activities, programs, and organizations to include in the declaration or
>> (if the list becomes too extensive for that) in an appendix to the
>> declaration.
>>
>> -Ralph Suter
>>
>> On 9/13/2011, Jameson Quinn wrote:
>>
>>  The suggestion has come from Warren Smith. His steps are (Warren,
>>> correct me
>>> if I'm wrong):
>>>
>>> 1. Write a version of the declaration suitable for publication as an
>>> editorial of an academic journal.
>>>
>>> 2. Get it published, preferably (quasi) simultaneously, by a few small
>>> journals.
>>>
>>> 3. Go to the journal Science, which published a lower-quality
>>> editorial in
>>> 2001, and use that fact to get them to publish it.
>>>
>>> I support this plan, as well as all of Richard's suggestions, but it is a
>>> significant amount of work, and by no means a sure thing.
>>>
>>> Jameson Quinn
>>>
>>> 2011/9/13 Richard Fobes<ElectionMethods@**votefair.org<ElectionMethods at votefair.org>
>>> >
>>>
>>>  > On 9/11/2011 8:19 PM, St?phane Rouillon wrote:
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> When and where will the declaration be published?
>>>>> >>
>>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > This declaration project was started by Jameson Quinn, and I'm not
>>>> sure
>>>> > what he has in mind for publishing, and currently he may be busy
>>>> monitoring
>>>> > the Guatemalan election results,
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, aside from the war criminal coming in first place (on youtube
>>> you can
>>> see an old 80s documentary where admits genocide and a subordinate
>>> implicates him in torture and perhaps murder of prisoners), the most
>>> notable
>>> result was the over 12% of blank/spoiled votes. That's obviously
>>> intentional; it's over a third of the first place result, over half of
>>> the
>>> second place one, and more than the (sizable) margin between them.
>>>
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