Hi Joshua, Ian,
On 2017-02-28 12:57, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
On 02/28/2017 09:38 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com> 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
innovation. Nor should SPI be in the business of doing our own
detailed analysis of voting systems, as you are doing. We should
leave voting system development, analysis, and recommendation, to
civil society organisations specialising in voting reform, such as
Fair Votes Canada and the UK Electoral Reform Society.
1 Billion times this.
I don't know whether you intended it that way, but in Ian's original
message, this was not a reply to anything I wrote.
Henrik,
My response was the affirm Ian's point that is all. Specifically:
[...]
* We should leave voting system development, analysis, and recommendation, to
civil society organisations specialising in voting reform, such as Fair Votes
Canada and the UK Electoral Reform Society.
I must object. Nothing other than resources prevents us from researching and
developing voting systems. It is correct that this is not our core business, but as
a decision-making organisation, improving our decision-making deserves investment.
It would be ideal if we could simply rely on organizations specialized in voting
systems R&D, but if the UK Electoral Reform Society is like Fair Vote Canada,
these two are unfortunately not going to help much.
The main issue of FVC is not to maximize representativeness, but simply to get
rid of FPTP given the challenges created by a population much less
knowledgeable about decision-making and much more traditionalist than SPI's, by
the constitution, and by the necessity to have the reform performed by a
government elected by FPTP. I have received tens of mails from FVC and none
discussed monotonicity or any technical point.
This was not a comment on the substance of Barak's claim.
[...]
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Filipus Klutiero
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