[EM] Unger, wrt tabulation.

[David L Wetzell]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 2012/2/2 David L Wetzell <wetzelld at gmail.com>
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>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> 2012/2/2 David L Wetzell <wetzelld at gmail.com>
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>>>> 2012/2/2 Stephen Unger <unger at cs.columbia.edu>
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>>>>>> A fundamental problem with all these fancy schemes is vote
>>>>>> tabulation. All but approval are sufficiently complex to make manual
>>>>>> processing messy, to the point where even checking the reported
>>>>>> results of a small fraction of the precincts becomes a cumbersome,
>>>>>> costly operation. (Score/range voting might be workable). Note that,
>>>>>> even with plurality voting, manual recounts are rare. With any of the
>>>>>> other schemes we would be committed to faith-based elections.
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>>>>>> Steve
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>>>> I wanted to mention that Approval-voting enhanced IRV and STV could be
>>>> tabulated at the precinct level.  You let everyone rank up to 3 candidates
>>>> and then you use these rankings to get 3 finalists.  You then sort the
>>>> votes into ten possible ways people could rank the 3 finalists.  But if the
>>>> third or fourth most often ranked candidates were within a small percent of
>>>> each other then it would not require a manual recount.  The IRV cd be done
>>>> with two sets of 3 candidates so there'd be twice as much sorting in the
>>>> 2nd round and then there'd be a manual recount if and only if there's a
>>>> different outcome in the two sets of candidates, which is not likely.
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>>> This is indeed possible, but it's several times harder than counting a
>>> truly summable method, especially an O(N) summable one.
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>> Explain to me what you mean by that?
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>> The summing of rankings in the first stage is O(N), right?
>> The summing of the number of votes in each of the 10 categories is O(N),
>> right?
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> Yes. You can either do it in two rounds, or one round that's O(N^3).
> Either way, it's more than twice as hard as a one-round, O(N) count.
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It's not twice as hard.  You just need to tally things up twice.

That's small potatoes.

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>>  The rest is a simple EXCEL spreadsheet problem.
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>>> And it's the only advantage of IRV3/AV3, because center
>>> squeeze/nonmonotonicity/Burlington still applies at full force
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>> Unless, their full force isn't that strong in real life with a dynamic
>> center and regular repositioning by parties.  And a 20% chance of "sour
>> grapes" non-monotonicity in the infrequent case of a three-way competitive
>> race isn't enuf to change voter behavior significantly.  And once again,
>> Burlington has gotta be downscaled in its significance given the small
>> margin with which IRV was rescinded and the deceptive campaign waged
>> against it, and the likelihood that it's pathologies would have been easily
>> worked out with time...
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>> Earth to EM, Burlington is not a smoking gun...
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> Earth to David. Reality doesn't care how often you repeat nice-sounding
> phrases about how you think IRV would usually work. Unless you give reality
> a chance to change you're mind, you're just fooling yourself.
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I do change my mind.  The fact I haven't wrt IRV is because I got a good
case and it is a huge non sequitur to presume that "the" solution to the
US's political problems is for it to become an EU-style multi-party
system....

Didn't you read RBJ's rebuke to your over-the-top rhetoric wrt IRV???

Y'all are trying to justify the large amount of time spent playing with
complicated single-winner election rules when the truth is that such is not
a pressing question for US_American electoral reform.

dlw

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> Jameson
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>> dlw
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>>>  Jameson
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>>>> dlw
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