[EM] Advocacy

[Richard Fobes]

I gave 5 stars to the Ban Single Mark Ballots proposal.

FYI, I did not post that proposal.  Jon Denn posted the proposal using 
the executive summary he copied from the website copy of the Google Docs 
original.

(I did work with Jon to post there a tax-reform proposal named "Tax The 
Takers More Than The Makers.")

Based on the vote-counting method used at the site -- it uses score 
ballots -- I was tempted to vote one star for the "competing" "American 
Anti-Corruption Act."  But I didn't.  I gave it 5 stars too.

This sheds light on a question someone else posed: Why aren't better 
voting methods actually used in small organizations?  The choice of 
which method is "best" is not obvious.  And when voting is done by 
people who understand how to vote strategically, the strategy-vulnerable 
methods -- in this case score-ballot-based counting -- easily produce 
unrepresentative results.

Richard Fobes

On 11/26/2012 10:02 AM, Jonathan Denn wrote:
> United Republic has a new high profile attempt at change with the
> American Anti-Corruption Act. Of course, it doesn't address Banning
> Single Mark Ballots. On my site BSMB has an 83% approval rating which is
> a weighted average of conservatives, independents, and liberals. While
> this is a very good rating, even greater, it really needs to be up in
> the 90s to get real notice. So, if you could take a few moments, go to
> aGREATER.US <http://aGREATER.US>, sign up (it just takes a minute),
> click on http://www.agreater.us/billpage.php?id=400 , and give it 5
> stars: I can then more confidently push this in my meetings and tweets.
> Also, UR has some real juice, so if their folk come to rate AACA and
> then hang out for awhile they may learn about (y)our efforts.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon