Western-Style Voting 'A Loser'

sethawoolley writes "In light of the upcoming elections in the US, author William Poundstone was interviewed about voting systems by Mother Jones. In it he advocates the benefits of Range Voting as a solution to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Approval, Borda, Instant Runoff, and Condorcet Voting, which are often solutions advocated by the Greens and Libertarians (in the US), are discussed, as well, in light of Warren Smith's recent empirical research using Bayesian Regret. My local party (of which I'm the Parliamentarian) uses Single Transferable voting, but we're considering using Range Voting in the future. One thing is for certain: any system is better than the West's out-dated plurality voting system."

Comments

Re:Is it just me?

[chuckymonkey]

Good job making assumptions about someone you don't know. In that vein I could say get out of the basement and wash your face, but I'm not going to. I was just trying to bring a little brevity to a discussion that is bound to be a flamefest, however I see that my humor is lost today. Anyway, how about you don't assume that someone is uneducated based on a couple of sentences. I never said that I disagree with what he's saying did I? I also never said that I agree because for the most part I don't really care all that much. Now go be a jackass somewhere else please.

Re:What a horrible law

[A nonymous Coward]

I take it, then, that you have no argument at all against my other points?

I find it interesting that one of the arguments in favor of Australia's gun control was to reduce suicides. Yet the only thing that changed was the distribution of suicides by type; the absolute number stayed the same. That was useful.

I never looked into your stats. But then, maybe I am a troll, and by objecting to just the one argument and implicitly accepting the others, you have been trolled.

That would be fun too.