<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 11:43 AM Joshua Boehme <<a href="mailto:joshua.p.boehme@gmail.com">joshua.p.boehme@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Reading this, my question was: what's the specific question we'd be answering?<br>
<br></blockquote><div>"How would you rank (or approve) these various voting-systems, in regards to their merit-in-use (cost & difficulty of implementation, administration & auditing against count-fraud--& strategy demands or problems for the voter?"</div><div><br></div><div>Obviously we don't all agree on the relative importance of those considerations for merit-in-use. I value count-fraud-security very highly, more importantly than the benefits brought by the best ranked-methdos.<br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
In almost any real world application (i.e., anything other than an audience with a very strong math or programming background) I'd personally favor Approval over Schulze. </blockquote><div><br></div><div><b><u>EXACTLY !!!</u></b></div><div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div>I don't know why I blocked that person a long time ago, but I'm unblocking.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">From a pure theoretical standpoint, though, I'd put them in the opposite order</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of course. RP(wv) is my favorite for polls, & for offering to jurisdictions where people insist on ranked-methods. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">.<br>
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On 4/4/24 01:13, Michael Ossipoff wrote:<br>
> EM used to do a lot of polls, but now never does. So I wouldn’t propose<br>
> one, if it weren’t for the fact that, this year, the voters of at least two<br>
> states are going to vote on whether to enact a certain voting-system.<br>
> <br>
> It seems to me—tell me if I’m wrong—that those people have a right to know<br>
> how people familiar with voting-systems feel about the relative merits of<br>
> some voting-systems.<br>
> <br>
> So, though I claim that polls are valuable for demonstrating the experience<br>
> of using the voting systems, & how they work, & what they’ll do—& are<br>
> therefore useful & worthwhile for their own sake—this poll that I now<br>
> propose isn’t a poll for its own sake.<br>
> <br>
> It is, as I said, proposed for the important practical purpose of letting<br>
> the voters in the upcoming enactment-elections know how we feel about the<br>
> relative merits of some voting-systems, including the one that they’re<br>
> about to vote on the enactment of.<br>
> <br>
> The voting-method for the poll:<br>
> <br>
> It seems to me that Schulze is the most popular ranked voting-system, among<br>
> the people at EM.<br>
> <br>
> …& it seems to me that the last time we voted on EM’s collective favorite<br>
> voting-system, Approval won.<br>
> <br>
> Those seem the top-two, in EM popularity.<br>
> <br>
> I prefer RP(wv) to Beatpath, mostly for its simple, intuitively natural &<br>
> obvious rule, but also for its LIIAC compliance, & the fact that its winner<br>
> usually pairbeats Schulze’s winner.<br>
> <br>
> But I guess Schulze is more popular due to its more efficient algorithm.<br>
> <br>
> Anyway so I suggest that the poll I propose have a Schulze balloting &<br>
> count, & an Approval balloting & count.<br>
> <br>
> Voting would consist of posting a ranking & an approval-set, in one post.<br>
> <br>
> Candidate voting-systems:<br>
> <br>
> My purpose isn’t an all-inclusive poll among all proposed voting-systems.<br>
> …just a very few ones that are the most popular here at EM, solely to have<br>
> a little comparison to the main voting system being publicly voted on this<br>
> year.<br>
> <br>
> So it should just be among a few voting-systems. Additionally, no reason to<br>
> make the alternatives-lineup too time-consumingly large by including<br>
> methods unlikely to win anyway.<br>
> <br>
> I’ll suggest a few obvious inclusions. But, of course every poll here<br>
> should have the possibility of nomination of whatever alternative anyone<br>
> wants to nominate.<br>
> <br>
> I’ll list my nominations in this post, & I claim that those few are all the<br>
> alternatives needed for the poll. …& anyone can nominate anything during a<br>
> 1-week nomination-period.<br>
> <br>
> I suggest the following voting-systems as candidates in the poll, the<br>
> alternatives among which to vote:<br>
> <br>
> Approval<br>
> RP(wv)<br>
> Schulze<br>
> IRV<br>
> <br>
> (Schulze & RP are often said to be the ranked-methods most popular among<br>
> single-winner reform community, & that seems true at EM.)<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Is there any need for more alternatives than that?<br>
> <br>
> I suggest a nomination period of exactly one week, starting at the time<br>
> recorded as the posting-time-&-date of this post.<br>
> <br>
> After which a voting-period of exactly one month would start…at the exact<br>
> time as the end of the nomination-period.<br>
> <br>
> If there are no nominations (I suggest that none are needed) during the<br>
> nomination-period—& if, during the nomination-period, no one posts the<br>
> words “I second the suggestion of a poll”—then of course there’d not be a<br>
> poll.<br>
> <br>
> Again, I realize that polls are no longer popular here, but this is a<br>
> special situation, bringing a need for voters in the upcoming public<br>
> enactment-election to have a chance to hear how people at EM feel about<br>
> relative merit among voting-systems. So let’s make an exception to the<br>
> absence of polls here, for voters in the next election.<br>
> <br>
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