On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 22:59:04 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:49:53PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> Well if you're right then I believe the electorate gets exactly
>> what it asks for--slow, steady improvement over the status quo.
>>
>> I.E. I believe the voting system works as desired--or at least as I
>> desire it.
> As I attempted to explain in my reply to Raul Miller, that you may
> disagree with the fanciful meditations which let me to start
> thinking about this issue isn't really germane to the problem I
> raised.
> As I said to Raul:
> [...] if the technique is consistently used, and people don't
> adapt their voting practices to compensate for it, that it
> could result in zero progress in an infinite number of steps,
> regardless of the actual collective desired pace of progress.
Since you have yet to see this technique work even once, I
think that you have yet to make your case that it can work in the
first place.
manoj
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