Here is a part of the last messages with the dots added using the adddots.pl program in the files area.(which is due for a rewrite for using 2 dots for 3...
The Alternative Vote is about 2.3 times worse than a simple obvious superior alternative. A replacement for the Alternative is the preferential voting method ...
The First Man on the Moon is said by America to be Neil Armstrong. Neil Armstrong avoids interviews with journalists (says documentary maker, Bart Winfield...
Deriving an exact 3 or (4 candidate) formula apparently leads to formula that are quite bad on k candidate elections having papers truncated and showing no...
Here is the P1 + P2 shadowing tangent polytope defining P1+P2 fairness for 1 winner 4 candidate elections with STV style papers: TP_P2P1_A_Lose := a + c + d -...
I changed the configuration of the 2 mailing lists: [1] ---------------------------------------------------------- The SINGLE-TRANSFERABLE-VOTE is now...
This is a Politiciand and Polytopes mailing list message copied out to the relatively dormant Single Transferable Vote mailing list, where now members can...
DNS lookups now fail on www.condorcet.org , condorcet.org PS. It seems that IFPP theory might be substantially in error because using Truncation Resistance. ...
I sent in an e-mail saying unfairness and no spec of reasoning, to the Election Methods List. Nothing happened. Some of the facts are really very simple....
Note: the hindrance on joining the Politicians-and-Polytopes mailing list (of about 3/4 of both December and January 2004) has been removed. Date: 27 January...
N3 was defined wrongly in the last message. In the last message the "N"-letter rules were rules that are not imposed, and the "Y"-letter rules are imposed. The...
I said Borda was corrupt in a 31-March-2003 message to Politicians-and-Polytopes. Here is a derivation of an example, and a check at the end. I have hosted my...
At 2004-06-19 11:03 +1200 Saturday, Craig Carey wrote: ... ... The example is not that interesting since it is failing other rules; monotonicity, P1,...
Finding the worst case unfairness (or whatever) in preferential voting methods, probably requires a new optimizer. Without a custom optimizer, 5 candidates is...
This is the best place for you all the catholics to find friends who have the same faith and view whith you.You can find a friend who you have been searching...
I updated my http://www.ijs.co.nz/irv-wrong-winners.htm webpage in the last week. Now the page defines the Avy method. Previously it was mainly only defined at...
Failure in deriving a Later No Harm algorithm Intro: My first attempt failed due to a lack of strength of the assumption that First Past the Post is embedded...
Summary: The IFPP method is the Alternative Vote with a 1/3 quota that finds losers. Its 1/3 quota could be lowered. Though Later No Harm has not effect, there...
In the last message I defined a parameterized solution to the (AB),(B),(C) election. Then I let parameter x=1/6 and showed a contradiction. The plain (IFPP)...
I have done something to reduce the amount of junk mail. I have reconfigured the server so that all new members are stuck in moderating at the time of joining....
I hadn't noticed before. that adding (AB) can cause the winners to change from {A,B} to {A,C}. Possibly a rule to stop that might be desired. It seems OK if...
At 2005-01-02 08:44 -0500 Sunday, Eric Gorr wrote to Election-Methods-List ... I could not find text of 1952 that is by Mr May in 1952. ... Here is a...
... A_Wins := ( d < a and d < b and d < c and ((b + c < a + d and a + da < b + db and a + da < c + dc) or (b + db < c + dc and ((2*c + 2*dc < a + b + da + db ...
Announcement: There is a free version of REDUCE available at my http://tope.tigris.org/ website. It runs in Windows 9x. A better version is available from...
I shall skip sending this to my mailing list. Unfortunately this is a message of Mr Richie. Maybe some subscriber wishes to join. With my message of 14, there...
... Correction: the first name is spelt "Hinda". Some articles will exist briefly at http://news.google.com/ In this message I say how to modify the...
Start: 9:48 NZT (= +12h) Thur 6 July 2006/ There is nothing in here except the construction of tables and then the creation of an argument saying that the...
