<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489948838594_4581">Sounds like it may be fun.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489948838594_4579"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489948838594_4580">David<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489948838594_4578"><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, March 18, 2017 3:38 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@sobac.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div dir="ltr">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br></div><div dir="ltr">Hash: SHA1<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Board Games Nights appear to be popular[1]. But David R. MacIver<br></div><div dir="ltr">argues that board games are in need of Electoral Reform:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.drmaciver.com/2017/03/an-untapped-family-of-board-game-mechanics/" target="_blank">http://www.drmaciver.com/2017/03/an-untapped-family-of-board-game-mechanics/</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">= An untapped family of board game mechanics =<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Have you noticed how board games are in dire need of electoral<br></div><div dir="ltr">> reform?<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> No, wait, seriously. Hear me out. This makes sense.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> In most board games, through a series of events, you acquire points<br></div><div dir="ltr">> (votes), where each point (vote) goes to at most one player, and<br></div><div dir="ltr">> then at the end the person with the most points (votes) wins<br></div><div dir="ltr">> outright, regardless of how narrow their margin is.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> It’s literally plurality voting, and it leads to a number of the<br></div><div dir="ltr">> same problems.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Who wants to hold another Discussion Night, with a Board Games theme<br></div><div dir="ltr">where we re-work a game to have fair voting rules? Scrabble with<br></div><div dir="ltr">multi-member winners? Monopoly with proportional results?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This would be a great way to learn about some of the mechanics of<br></div><div dir="ltr">different voting systems, although it probably won't do much to get<br></div><div dir="ltr">the government to implement PR, which every day looks more like that<br></div><div dir="ltr">game of betting on dice.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- --Bob.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">[1]:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://kwpeace.ca/board-games-night-for-peace-and-nonviolence-wednesday-15-march-2017/" target="_blank">http://kwpeace.ca/board-games-night-for-peace-and-nonviolence-wednesday-15-march-2017/</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">- --<br></div><div dir="ltr">Bob Jonkman <<a ymailto="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>> Phone: +1-519-635-9413<br></div><div dir="ltr">SOBAC Microcomputer Services <a href="http://sobac.com/sobac/" target="_blank">http://sobac.com/sobac/</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting<br></div><div dir="ltr">GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br></div><div dir="ltr">Version: GnuPG v2<br></div><div dir="ltr">Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">iEYEARECAAYFAljNjFEACgkQuRKJsNLM5eosUACgv9g4IlI438RhaO/ryixczkdy<br></div><div dir="ltr">Ej0An11M8yabjzvzDPFF3rj9qaW5d6qP<br></div><div dir="ltr">=l+oT<br></div><div dir="ltr">-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">This is the fvc-wat-disc mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr">Post a message: <a ymailto="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org" href="mailto:fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org">fvc-wat-disc@listserv.thinkers.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Unsubscribe: <a href="http://listserv.thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/fvc-wat-disc_listserv.thinkers.org" target="_blank">http://listserv.thinkers.org/mailman/listinfo/fvc-wat-disc_listserv.thinkers.org</a><br></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>