Updated Treasurer reports

2017-02-28 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
tl;dr Reports updated at http://www.spi-inc.org/treasurer/ First of all, I've added a link to treasurer on the http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/ cause I could not find any way to navigate to /treasurer/ pages. Next, on the http://www.spi-inc.org/treasurer/ I have added a mapping to all the report

Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2017-02-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 02/28/2017 09:38 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: On 02/28/2017 07:56 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: Henrik Ingo writes ("Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages]"): Finally, SPI should not be in the bus

Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2017-02-28 Thread Henrik Ingo
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On 02/28/2017 07:56 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: >> >> Henrik Ingo writes ("Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board >> elections [and 1 more messages]"): > > >> Finally, SPI should not be in the business of voting system >> innovati

Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2017-02-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 02/28/2017 07:56 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: Henrik Ingo writes ("Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages]"): Finally, SPI should not be in the business of voting system innovation. Nor should SPI be in the business of doing our own detailed analysi

Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2017-02-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Henrik Ingo writes ("Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages]"): > Just wanted to share some more information on the Helios voting software: Thanks. > While a homomorphic e-voting algorithm is arguably better in many > ways, a fundamental property of

Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages]

2017-02-28 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 27 February 2017 at 22:30, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > I am very happy to see SPI adopt a voting system designed for > proportional representation. > > However I do feel obligated to correct a simple incorrect statement, > namely that STV, a proportional representation system built upon IRV,

Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages] [and 1 more messages]

2017-02-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonathan McDowell writes ("Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages]"): Jonathan McDowell writes ("Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections"): > Actually it turns out that OpenSTV is written in Python and largely > written in a wa

Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections

2017-02-28 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 06:58:23PM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 06:09:21PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Dimitri John Ledkov writes ("2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for > > Board elections"): > > > The board recognizes the deficiencies of the current voting al

Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages]

2017-02-28 Thread Henrik Ingo
Just wanted to share some more information on the Helios voting software: On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Dimitri John Ledkov writes ("2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for > Board elections"): > Joshua D. Drake writes ("Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm fo

Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections [and 1 more messages]

2017-02-28 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
I am very happy to see SPI adopt a voting system designed for proportional representation. However I do feel obligated to correct a simple incorrect statement, namely that STV, a proportional representation system built upon IRV, is in some sense best-of-breed. STV in fact exhibits a variety of ve