[EM] Vote and count conservation laws

[Richard Lung]

In my experience, unfamiliarity is more an obstacle to understanding, than lack of intelligence. :-)
My post a 12 tone score to you! The unconventional scoring of the "bark brod" symfony 4 by Sibelius had an orchestra misplaying unexpected turns. It may have been Kutovitsky - can't remember the spelling -- who said he would keep on playing it till audiences liked it -- familiarity, you see.
 I know nothing about music, as mathematicians also realise.



On 17 Sep 2022, at 7:21 pm, Forest Simmons <forest.simmons21 at gmail.com> wrote:

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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