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

[Richard Lung]

"there’s no one universal set of principles that govern the perfect 
electoral system."

Whoever said there was.


On 12/04/2024 15:03, Michael Garman wrote:
> “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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