[fvc-wat-disc] Comparing voting systems

[David dirks]

Thank you Evan, I really appreciated your work in advance and your patience, as we chewed through the material.  I learned a number of things and found the discussion both informative and fascinating.  Many thanks.
David 

    On Friday, March 30, 2018 2:52 PM, STUART CHANDLER <stuchandler43 at gmail.com> wrote:
 

  Thanks Evan. 
Thanks so much for your efforts in helping us all to gain clarity, plus improve our ability to explain PR to others.  
I was very sorry I was not able to attend the full meeting (due to competing obligations). 
You are‎ the best! 
Thanks again. 
Stu. 

 
  Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network. 
|   From: Evan RosamondSent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 3:35 PMTo: FVC Waterloo Region DiscussionReply To: FVC Waterloo Region DiscussionSubject: [fvc-wat-disc] Comparing voting systems |


 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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