<div><div><div dir="auto">Considering the options those voters will have on their ballots will be IRV and FPP, it makes far more sense to just poll those two. </div></div></div><div><div><div dir="auto"><br clear="all">On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 7:13 AM Michael Ossipoff <<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com" target="_blank">email9648742@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">EM used to do a lot of polls, but now never does. So I wouldn’t propose one, if it weren’t for the fact that, this year, the voters of at least two states are going to vote on whether to enact a certain voting-system.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It seems to me—tell me if I’m wrong—that those people have a right to know how people familiar with voting-systems feel about the relative merits of some voting-systems.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So, though I claim that polls are valuable for demonstrating the experience of using the voting systems, & how they work, & what they’ll do—& are therefore useful & worthwhile for their own sake—this poll that I now propose isn’t a poll for its own sake.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is, as I said, proposed for the important practical purpose of letting the voters in the upcoming enactment-elections know how we feel about the relative merits of some voting-systems, including the one that they’re about to vote on the enactment of.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The voting-method for the poll: </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It seems to me that Schulze is the most popular ranked voting-system, among the people at EM.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">…& it seems to me that the last time we voted on EM’s collective favorite voting-system, Approval won.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Those seem the top-two, in EM popularity.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I prefer RP(wv) to Beatpath, mostly for its simple, intuitively natural & obvious rule, but also for its LIIAC compliance, & the fact that its winner usually pairbeats Schulze’s winner.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But I guess Schulze is more popular due to its more efficient algorithm.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyway so I suggest that the poll I propose have a Schulze balloting & count, & an Approval balloting & count.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Voting would consist of posting a ranking & an approval-set, in one post.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Candidate voting-systems:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My purpose isn’t an all-inclusive poll among all proposed voting-systems. …just a very few ones that are the most popular here at EM, solely to have a little comparison to the main voting system being publicly voted on this year.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So it should just be among a few voting-systems. Additionally, no reason to make the alternatives-lineup too time-consumingly large by including methods unlikely to win anyway.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I’ll suggest a few obvious inclusions. But, of course every poll here should have the possibility of nomination of whatever alternative anyone wants to nominate.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I’ll list my nominations in this post, & I claim that those few are all the alternatives needed for the poll. …& anyone can nominate anything during a 1-week nomination-period.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I suggest the following voting-systems as candidates in the poll, the alternatives among which to vote:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Approval</div><div dir="auto">RP(wv)</div><div dir="auto">Schulze</div><div dir="auto">IRV</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(Schulze & RP are often said to be the ranked-methods most popular among single-winner reform community, & that seems true at EM.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Is there any need for more alternatives than that?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I suggest a nomination period of exactly one week, starting at the time recorded as the posting-time-&-date of this post.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">After which a voting-period of exactly one month would start…at the exact time as the end of the nomination-period.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If there are no nominations (I suggest that none are needed) during the nomination-period—& if, during the nomination-period, no one posts the words “I second the suggestion of a poll”—then of course there’d not be a poll. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Again, I realize that polls are no longer popular here, but this is a special situation, bringing a need for voters in the upcoming public enactment-election to have a chance to hear how people at EM feel about relative merit among voting-systems. So let’s make an exception to the absence of polls here, for voters in the next election.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div>
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