I changed the default setting for new accounts to have external links open in a new tab but it does not appear to apply retroactively to accounts that have already been created. So everyone who already has an account will have to change it themselves.
@SaraWolk OK I went ahead and made these change for now.
@Keith Out of curiosity, what in particular do you think he lacks knowledge about?
@Jack-Waugh said in Approval vs. IRV:
Mr. Drutman opined that no single-winner election can defend against two-party dominance. I would like to ask him, in that case, why he debated on the side of one voting system over another for such elections.
This seems to be the central issue. If you assume that single-winner election systems will inevitably be two-party dominated, then IRV does basically everything you could want. It will strike out everyone but the top two, then pick the most preferred candidate between the two. In a two party dominated Approval contest, the voters must decide for themselves how much they value influencing the contest between the frontrunners, and how much they value making other distinctions. You'll notice that in two-party dominated elections that use plurality, voters similarly have to make choices about which distinctions they most value making. I think this is why they often compare Approval to plurality and emphasize later no harm - the kinds of elections that IRV advocates worry about look very specifically like Gore losing to Bush in Florida.
When I talk to local IRV advocates, the most persuasive thing I can do is to point out that local races don't look like Bush vs Gore, because when there is a competitive race, it is often because there is an open seat, and 3 or 4 people who have been waiting to run for that seat all see their opportunity.
@Keith Out of curiosity, what in particular do you think he lacks knowledge about?
You should probably contact the admins directly about this. Their email is at the bottom of the home page.
@Jack-Waugh It's nice to see a cardinal method being invited to the table, and not just IRV.
If you are registered to vote in the US and support score-based voting systems (which includes things like STAR and Approval), I would encourage you to sign up at: http://scorevoting.swarmage.net/
The point is to track support for score voting, and identify when regions have strong bases of support so that they can be targeted for activism.
(I see some people here have already done this.)
It would rather depend on how the committee members were selected. If we implemented this system for the US Congress right now, for example, there would be considerable tension between a legislator's obligations to their district, their party, which is responsible for seating them on committees, and to the people who chose them as proxies. They would need to be concerned with all 3.
I would have to know more about the context, but if it came up in the context of voting methods, it sounds like it might be assuming a runoff procedure, such as the one that IRV has. IRV might be construed as passing "Independence of Eliminated Alternatives" since when it eliminates candidates it essentially deletes them from rankings for the purpose of future counts. But of course it does not pass Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives.
@Jack-Waugh In that case we might want to figure out which of these forums are most worth the effort of archiving. (At least, if each forum would require separate work.)
If some of these forums weren't open to the public we might want to be careful about just publishing it though.
Looks decent. I took a screenshot of how it looks on my phone. I can post that.