[EM] Poll on voting-systems, to inform voters in upcoming enactment-elections

[robert bristow-johnson]

> On 04/07/2024 9:51 AM EDT Chris Benham <cbenhamau at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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> > Never buy a fraudulently-promoted product.
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>  It is sometimes important to buy the better product, regardless of how it is promoted.
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>  Say for example you are in the market for a family car. The promoters of one tell you that
>  in their car all its occupants have say a 99% chance of surviving an accident (when it's really
>  only 90%) while the promoters of a competitor honestly admit that in their car you chance
>  of surviving an accident is only say 70%.
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>  Which car do you buy? 
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>  In this case of STAR versus Hare, the relative merits are accessible via not-too-deep thought
>  experiments.
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>  One is much older than its current promoters and been relatively widely used for a longish time,
>  while the other has just been cooked up as a "modern method" by people who tell us that they
>  are "experts" and that we can trust their "computer simulations".
>  
>  Chris 
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<clapping>

Chris joins Kristofer in my appreciation category.

I continue to believe that it's just more important that important principles be focused on, and I can't think of a more important principle that, when at all possible, our votes are counted equally.  That each of us voters have equal influence on government in our elections for public office.  If our votes are not counted equally, then I want my vote to count more than yours.

Then if we insist that votes count equally, then we agree that if more voters mark their ballots preferring A to B than the number of voters marking their ballots to the contrary, then when at all possible, we don't elect B.

That's it.  One-person-one-vote leads to Majority rule which leads to some Condorcet-consistent method.  I believe that this principle takes primacy over any other for deciding single-winner elections when there is no proportionality to be had.  For multi-winner elections I might be for an STV method.

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