[EM] Vote and count conservation laws

[Forest Simmons]

Some of my best ideas have been triggered by trying to understand comments
that were somewhat or tonally mysterious to me:-)

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 2:07 AM Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet at t-online.de>
wrote:

> On 9/16/22 05:05, Forest Simmons wrote:
> > As a mathematician I love formal analogies among apparently disparate
> > fields of inquiry ... the greater the apparent disparities, the more
> > interesting ... and the greater the potential for cross fertilization!
>
> I still find it very hard to extract useful information from any of
> that. But then I have got Richard plonked for a reason :-) With my email
> client automatically ignoring his posts, I don't have to wrack my brain
> parsing them.
>
> I wonder if any of the early STV theoreticians focused very much on the
> count, because I see this sort of "algorithm-based approach" (where
> exactly how the algorithm works matters) both in Richard's posts and
> James Gilmour's program instruction view of ranked ballots.
>
> It's very different from my "ranked ballots are preferences, and
> criteria that are used to evaluate voting methods are entirely
> implementation agnostic" view -- which I have the impression is a later
> American perspective, although I couldn't say just how I've come to that
> impression.
>
> -km
>
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