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<div>Great suggestions: redundancy of this type is good!</div>
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<div>In this context VPR means if you agree mostly with the Green Party ratings (for example) you can have those ratings filled in automatically (except for the few you already filled in by yourself)... helpful when there are hundreds of candidates as in the
recall election that got Arnold elected governor for the first time.</div>
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<div>From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@gmail.com> </div>
<div>Date: 7/8/21 7:49 PM (GMT-08:00) </div>
<div>To: Susan Simmons <suzerainsimmons@outlook.com> </div>
<div>Cc: election-methods@lists.electorama.com </div>
<div>Subject: Re: [EM] STAR Voting </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 6:49 PM Susan Simmons <<a href="mailto:suzerainsimmons@outlook.com">suzerainsimmons@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Also the STAR camp may not be as hardened against suggestions as the leading IRV proponents are ... including the suggestion of a Condorcet check on the front end.<br>
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Certainly. I get good vibes from the STAR team. If you look at their website, they don't have any unfair attacks against other methods. What they say about Condorcet and Approval Voting is fair, reasonable, and honest, and they readily admit that those are
good voting methods too. I mentioned this on Reddit a few days ago and I got a positive response. You could imagine making a rule like this:</div>
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1) If there is a candidate with a majority of first-place votes, elect them.</div>
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2) Otherwise, elect the candidate that wins every one-on-one pairwise contest against every other candidate, if there is one.<br>
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3) Otherwise, ... [ STAR ]</div>
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Rule (1) is redundant but practically I think it would be easier to convince someone with it.</div>
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<div>They might even be open to incorporating the use of VPR (<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif; font-size:small"></span>Voting for a Published Rating)... facilitated replication of the ballot recommendations of your favorite
candidate, party, or other institution.<br>
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<div>No matter what method is adopted, it should be implemented in a <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif; font-size:small">
</span>Replicate a Published Recommendation Option shell, to simplify the voting process as much as possible for Joe Q Public (remember Joe the Plumber?) or Charles L. Dodgson' s English Plough Boy.</div>
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I have no idea what "Voting for a Published Rating" or "<span class="gmail_default"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Replicate a Published Recommendation Option shell" mean.</span></div>
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<div>Anybody have connections to STAR?</div>
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Not really, but one of their members is active on Reddit and seems like a nice person.</div>
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