Comments on: Richard Winger of Ballot Access News critiques Top-Two proposal in California http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/09/richard-winger-of-ballot-access-news-critiques-top-two-proposal-in-california/ Covering America's third parties and independent candidates since May 2008 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:58:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Melty http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/09/richard-winger-of-ballot-access-news-critiques-top-two-proposal-in-california/comment-page-1/#comment-99516 Melty Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:00:10 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=9837#comment-99516 For a state the size of California, you definitely want summablity, and most any method other than "instant runoff" gives you that. Perhaps most worrisome is how IRV incentivizes electronic voting. For a state the size of California, you definitely want summablity, and most any method other than “instant runoff” gives you that.

Perhaps most worrisome is how IRV incentivizes electronic voting.

]]> By: Melty http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/09/richard-winger-of-ballot-access-news-critiques-top-two-proposal-in-california/comment-page-1/#comment-99489 Melty Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:04:25 +0000 http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/?p=9837#comment-99489 1 - 4 are superb work, business as usual for Richard Winger. 5 is a bad idea. No elimination and reallocation system is desirable for a single winner election. There are other methods, though, with independence of clones and irrelevant alternatives or monotonicity that could provide a just means of bypassing primaries. 1 – 4 are superb work, business as usual for Richard Winger.
5 is a bad idea. No elimination and reallocation system is desirable for a single winner election. There are other methods, though, with independence of clones and irrelevant alternatives or monotonicity that could provide a just means of bypassing primaries.

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