Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:25:24AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > In any event, as I stated before, I had dropped the use of "preferred" > in favor of "beat path" because "beat path" is used in the technical > literature on voting systems and seems to have a precise definition > which agrees with the

Re: Why the default option is special

2002-10-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:39:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:31:41PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > When the majority of voters agree that something should be done, it's > > pretty clear that [1] is better than [2]. > > When the majority of voters do not agree that som

Re: RFD: Reviving Constitutional amendment: Smith/Condorcet vote tallying

2002-10-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:25:24AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > In any event, as I stated before, I had dropped the use of "preferred" > in favor of "beat path" because "beat path" is used in the technical > literature on voting systems and seems to have a precise definition > which agrees with the

Re: Why the default option is special

2002-10-23 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:39:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:31:41PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > When the majority of voters agree that something should be done, it's > > pretty clear that [1] is better than [2]. > > When the majority of voters do not agree that som