Re: Voting system R&D (Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections)

2017-03-07 Thread Josh berkus
On 03/07/2017 10:29 AM, Josh berkus wrote: > But STV is still a "single-winner" system. Any multi-winner > implementation of it we choose would *still* be experimental Aha, just found the multi-winner math for STV. Please ignore this part of my arguments. The other parts still apply. _

Re: Voting system R&D (Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections)

2017-03-07 Thread Josh berkus
On 03/07/2017 10:13 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Josh berkus writes ("Re: Voting system R&D (Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting > algorithm for Board elections)"): >> So in all of this discussion, I've not heard anything which seems >> terribly persuasive compared with just taking our existing system a

Re: Voting system R&D (Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections)

2017-03-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Josh berkus writes ("Re: Voting system R&D (Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections)"): > So in all of this discussion, I've not heard anything which seems > terribly persuasive compared with just taking our existing system and > fixing the problem with unranked candidates

Re: Voting system R&D (Re: 2017 update to the SPI voting algorithm for Board elections)

2017-03-07 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 08:50:09PM -0800, Josh berkus wrote: > So in all of this discussion, I've not heard anything which seems > terribly persuasive compared with just taking our existing system and > fixing the problem with unranked candidates FWIW this is already fixed; the current system supp