[fvc-wat-disc] Comparing voting systems

[Sharon Sommerville]

Thanks to you Evan.  Your presentation was an excellent discussion starter
and thoughtful presentation of a very complex subject.  Greatly appreciate
the concepts and analysis you brought together last night.  Many thanks on
behalf of the chapter.

All best wishes for a Happy Easter,
Sharon

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Evan Rosamond <erosamond at worldline.ca>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks to all who attended last night's discussion, especially the noisy
> ones. The comparison project is obviously a work in progress, so your
> thoughts and arguments were helpful and appreciated.
>
> It's likely to take some more discussing and arguing to make this chart
> into a useful tool. For example:
>
>    - Other proportionality needs better definition. A sort of Gallagher
>    Index for gender, age, native, immigrant etc. would be great but I haven't
>    found it yet. Will keep looking.
>    - The three columns having to do with simplicity need a full rewrite.
>    They are not well defined or evaluated.
>    - The Increase # of MPs column need testing and approval by committee.
>    - Are there any more attributes that should be on the chart? Are they
>    measurable?
>    - Weights need to be defined and agreed on by as big a group as we can
>    get. Maybe we should try a Borda count election of weights.
>    - When everything is working correctly, we can add some more voting
>    systems.
>
>  I've included two versions of the spreadsheet, a .ods for OpenOffice
> users and a .xls which ought to be readable by any spreadsheet program.
>
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