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

[Michael Garman]

“Truth” is perhaps not the appropriate word here — there’s no one universal
set of principles that govern the perfect electoral system.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 3:58 PM Richard Lung <voting at ukscientists.com>
wrote:

>
> This poll, I gather from the unfamiliar sounding names, is of
> single-member systems. But there need not be two classes of election
> systems, single-member and multi-member. There are not two truths of
> electoral system. There is (one truth) general electoral system
>
> It has been believed that the lack of proportional representation in
> single-member systems set them apart. But this is not necessarily the case.
> It is possible to have a general election system that works the same way
> for single-member systems as multi-member systems. Indeed (pardon me) I
> have invented it! The way it is done is to hold both an election count and
> an exclusion count, based on keep values, and average them, whether in a
> single or multi-member system.
>
> This redeems single-member systems for a rational count, as in
> multi-member systems. Without this, single-member systems, unlike
> multi-member systems, are stuck at a sub-rational level of accuracy, and
> are basically (“last past the post”) elimination counts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Lung.
>
>
>
> On 11/04/2024 07:45, Chris Benham wrote:
>
>
> Have the nominations closed?   Not that I want to nominate another method.
>
>
> There has been very little electioneering, with I think most of the
> nominated methods not even being mentioned.
>
> Some haven't even been explained let alone discussed or promoted.
>
> When does voting close?
>
> Chris Benham
>
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