[EM] POLL: New deadline: 2024-05-16 05:15:00 UTC

[Michael Ossipoff]

Additionally, polls are of interest to demonstrate how the voting-systems
work, & what it’s like to use them…in a way that can’t be found-out any
other way.  … at a forum where voting-systems are the topic of interest.

On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 11:48 Michael Ossipoff <email9648742 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It depends on what you mean by “significance”.
>
> I don’t think statistical significance to infer about the larger
> population is our goal.
>
> The result undeniably signifies what pairbeats everything else among the
> list-participants.
>
> … or, if no CW, then which alternative best qualifies by popular criteria.
>
> …what would be chosen by this electorate if we were making a choice.
>
> 3 times I was in a group of about 4 people who had to choose among several
> things (an initiative-proposal, an LWV endorsement, & a movie for a
> family-group to go to).
>
> All 3 times I conducted an election by MinMax(wv).
>
> No one asked if the result was significant. It was to make a
> collective-choice that had to be made.
>
> A survey would find out how many people best-like what. A poll by a
> multi-alternative method better aggregates a group’s collective
> preference…to show what would be chosen according to one or more
> reasonable rules.
>
> There’s no particular reason to not resubmit your ballot if you want to.
> But you needn’t unless you want to. Your most recent ballot has already
> been recorded, & I have no doubt whatsoever that it will be counted after
> the new deadline.
>
> If you want to modify it before the deadline, then of course you can post
> your new ballot.
>
> But of course certainly everyone’s most recent ballot will be counted,
> regardless of when it was posted.
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 09:24 robert bristow-johnson <
> rbj at audioimagination.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> We need not resubmit our vote, right?
>>
>> I haven't seen posted here more than a couple other ballots.  How many
>> have voted?
>>
>> I also am skeptical about the usefulness of the results (I presume a
>> pairwise preference matrix and approval tallies) but will be interested
>> anyway.
>>
>> But we need dozens voting to have anything of any significance.
>>
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>> ------ Original message------
>> *From: *Kristofer Munsterhjelm
>> *Date: *Sun, May 12, 2024 06 :47
>> *To: *Michael Ossipoff;
>> *Cc: *election-methods at lists.electorama.com;
>> *Subject:*[EM] POLL: New deadline: 2024-05-16 05:15:00 UTC
>>
>> On 2024-05-11 22:18, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
>> > If 5 days gives more people time to choose a ranking, the deadline
>> > having caught them unprepared, then that sounds better. I vote for 5.
>> >
>> > Also, more time for people to say what they meant to about method-merit.
>>
>> Since there's been no objection to extending the deadline, let's set the
>> new deadline to 5 days from the last one.
>>
>> That is, the new deadline is 2024-05-16 05
>>
>> :15:00 UTC.
>>
>> -km
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