Re: Voting system for elections

2016-08-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Barak A. Pearlmutter writes ("Re: Voting system for elections"): > On 25 July 2016 at 19:10, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > If the members could come to a consensus on the type of voting we should > > switch to, I would be more than happy to write the resolution. > > It seems like a few people seem t

Re: Voting system for elections

2016-08-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Barak A. Pearlmutter writes ("Re: Voting system for elections"): > It seems like a few people seem to find the argument for RRV > convincing, and no one has objected. I feel the need to repost here, an article I posted to spi-private on the 4th of August: From: Ian Jackson To: Cc: spi-priv...@l

Re: Voting system for elections

2016-08-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 08/16/2016 07:04 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: Barak A. Pearlmutter writes ("Re: Voting system for elections"): On 25 July 2016 at 19:10, Joshua D. Drake wrote: SPI should adopt a system widely used elsewhere. Correct. STV is the only widely adopted proportional voting system suitable for S

Re: Voting system for elections

2016-08-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 7/18/16 9:29 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > As has been discussed here many times previously, Condorcet is a bad > system for multi-seat elections. Rather than electing a board whose > composition reflects, proportionately, the views of the electorate, > the majoritarian or consensus candidates (as a

Re: Voting system for elections

2016-08-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Barak A. Pearlmutter writes ("Re: Voting system for elections"): > Let me describe two STV pathologies that actually happened in the last > couple years, and certainly raised my eyebrows. > > First, the result of an election can depend on the order of ballots. > In one case, the order was scramble

Re: Voting system for elections

2016-08-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Peter Eisentraut writes ("Re: Voting system for elections"): > On 7/18/16 9:29 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > As has been discussed here many times previously, Condorcet is a bad > > system for multi-seat elections. Rather than electing a board whose > > composition reflects, proportionately, the view

Re: Voting system for elections

2016-08-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 08/16/2016 08:14 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 7/18/16 9:29 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: As has been discussed here many times previously, Condorcet is a bad system for multi-seat elections. Rather than electing a board whose composition reflects, proportionately, the views of the electorate, the

Re: Voting system for elections

2016-08-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Peter Eisentraut writes ("Re: Voting system for elections"): > On 7/18/16 9:29 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > As has been discussed here many times previously, Condorcet is a bad > > system for multi-seat elections. Rather than electing a board whose > > composition reflects, proportionately, the view

Re: Voting system for elections

2016-08-16 Thread Susan Spencer
Which STV software has both: 1. open source license 2. recent commits On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Ian Jackson < ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > Peter Eisentraut writes ("Re: Voting system for elections"): > > On 7/18/16 9:29 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > As has been discussed h

Re: Voting system for elections

2016-08-16 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
> SPI should adopt a system widely used elsewhere. > > STV is the only widely adopted proportional voting system suitable for > SPI (the others are supplementary/additional member systems, and party > list systems). I agree that STV is a pretty reasonable system, in fact it is the best widely-depl

Re: Voting system for elections

2016-08-16 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
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