On 1 March 2017 at 13:47, Filipus Klutiero <chea...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. In my discussion of these issues, I did my best to give pointers to grounded technical information that shows that STV and even its underlying IRV are poor voting systems, which actually exhibit major pathologies in practice. (E.g., electing the least-preferred of the top three mayoral candidates in Burlington Vermont; messing up when presented with actual Debian Project Leader ballots; leading to long-term two-party domination in the legislature using STV in Australia.) Ian and Joshua are dismissing these concerns, but have not given any technical grounds, either now or in the previous round of discussion. At the very least, it would seem to me prudent to craft a resolution which includes (a) some flexibility, so that the voting system can be changed more easily should there be reason to; and (b) which mandates making the full list of cast ballots public, so that pathologies in the elections can be detected. --Barak. _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
