[fvc-wat-disc] Comparing voting systems

[Ellen Papenburg]

That was great! Thanks Evan!

via my android phone

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 19:54 Sharon Sommerville <sharonsommerville at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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