[EM] So I got an email... / IIA

[robert bristow-johnson]

> On 04/10/2022 3:52 PM Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet at t-online.de> wrote:
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> Is there a chance, then, that Burlington will go directly to a summable
> Condorcet method instead of a patch to IRV?
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maybe a fool's hope.   and it's the state government that will save our asses, not the city government.   Too many children on the city council.   But city charter code are at the level of state law.   So the legislature and guv have to approve charter changes.

but my state rep, Bob Hooper, was in contact with Eric Maskin's office to get him to testify.   And I mentioned this to Prof. Tideman.   If we can get open minds and open ears in the Vermont state senate and in the Senate Government Operations Committee, we maybe have a fool's hope.

Maskin is Harvard and has a Nobel.   In 2004 (before the Nobel), he and Partha Dasgupta published this Scientific American article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m6qn6Y7PAQldKNeIH2Tal6AizF7XY2U4/view  .   Maskin calls Condorcet "true majority rule".   But he's also an endorser to FairVote: https://www.fairvote.org/ranked_choice_voting_endorsements  

That FairVote train runnin on a lotta momentum.   VPIRG spent $71000 to do a commercial.

https://www.vpirg.org/news/new-ad-campaign-gives-ranked-choice-voting-a-big-boost/  

All these people hate my guts.   Becca and Kesha (they are running for Congress) and Chris P are, I'm sure, very disappointed in me.

Reformer wannabees hate hearing that their reform, itself, needs reform.

I think Precinct Summability might save the day, Kristofer.   I am getting good attention from the Secretary of State's office.

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