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<div> From: scott@open-vote.org<br>
<pre><tt>> Warren, I don't like your definition of "median" here. The axes and<br>
> origin are completely arbitrary!<br>
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> Here, I've duplicated your example in image form, with your original<br>
> axes: The <span class="correction" id="">cyan</span> circle is your candidate O, and the purple X is your<br>
> candidate X.<br>
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<a href="http://tuzakey.com/%7Escott/2dimensional-median-counter.png" target="_blank">> http://tuzakey.com/~scott/2dimensional-median-counter.png</a><br>
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The axes are supposed to represent issues. This means that they are not set arbitrarily.<br>
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Rotating the axes would represent mixing issues, which is against the whole point using city-block distance.<br>
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<div style="clear: both;"><span class="correction" id="">Raphfrk</span><br>
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Interesting site<br>
"what if anyone could modify the laws"<br>
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<span class="correction" id="">www</span>.<span class="correction" id="">wikocracy</span>.com</div>
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