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

[Michael Garman]

That’s what you’re implying when you describe it in terms of “truth.”

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 7:46 PM Richard Lung <voting at ukscientists.com>
wrote:

>
> "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
>>
>> ----
>> Election-Methods mailing list - see https://electorama.com/em for list
>> info
>>
>> ----
>> Election-Methods mailing list - see https://electorama.com/em for list
>> info
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/attachments/20240412/ffcc5d64/attachment.htm>