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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="auto">Okay, here is my ballot. With Write-In candidates.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. Condorcet-Plurality </div><div dir="auto">2. MinMax</div><div dir="auto">3. Ranked-Pairs</div><div dir="auto">4. Schulze</div><div dir="auto">5. BTR-IRV</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">======== Approval cutoff point</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">6. all other Condorcet-consistent methods</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">N: Hare IRV</div><div dir="auto">N+1: Approval</div><div dir="auto">N+2: STAR</div><div dir="auto">N+3: FPTP</div><div dir="auto">N+4: Score</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am mostly agnostic about WV vs. Margins for defeat strength but I sorta resonate more with margins. My principal motivation are methods that are good (so it has to be Condorcet) and might have the best chance for adoption in legislation for public elections to government office.
</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><div dir="auto" font-size:9pt;"=""><i>Powered by Cricket Wireless</i></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">------ Original message------</div><div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>Michael Ossipoff<email9648742@gmail.com></email9648742@gmail.com></div><div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Fri, May 10, 2024 20:11</div><div dir="auto"><b>To: </b>Kristofer Munsterhjelm;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Cc: </b>EM;robert bristow-johnson;</div><div dir="auto"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [EM] POLL: Approaching deadline: <a href="tel:2024-05-11 05">2024-05-11 05</a>:15:00 UTC</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="auto">But we’ve all posted our ballots, & so, if someone wanted to strategally take advantage of the information about the other ballots, they’ve already got that information anyway.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So there doesn’t seem
to be a need to conceal our ballots from eachother to prevent strategic use of them. … because that information is already out.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So why not just say that a person’s most recent posted ballot (which could be what that person has already posted) before the deadline, counts as that person’s ballot.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If people feel that there hasn’t been enough close-notice about the deadline, should we advance the deadline by 2 days?</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 14:41 Kristofer Munsterhjelm <<a href="mailto:km_elmet@t-online.de">km_elmet@t-online.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On <a href="tel:2024-05-10 23">2024-05-10 23</a>:37, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:<br>
> On <a href="tel:2024-05-10 22">2024-05-10 22</a>:34, robert bristow-johnson wrote:<br>
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>> I hadn't known that we were actually voting. I don't need to vote by <br>
>> secret ballot, but I don't want to necessarily influence other votes.<br>
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>> Should I just send a ballot to you, Kristofer? How do we do this?<br>
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> I think this is the easiest way to do it:<br>
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> Send your ballot to me, Michael Ossipoff, or both. Then post it to the <br>
> list once the deadline is up. I'll verify that you sent it to me before <br>
> the deadline. (And I imagine Michael would do the same if you sent the <br>
> ballot to him.)<br>
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I forgot to say: if you change your mind after having sent your ballot, <br>
just send your modified ballot later. As long as it's inside the <br>
deadline, the last one you submitted is the one that counts.<br>
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-km<br>
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