On October 26, the Riverside (California) Press-Enterprise endorsed Jeff Hewitt for County Supervisor in Riverside County. Each of the five supervisor districts in Riverside County has almost 500,000 population. Hewitt is a member of the Libertarian Party. The office is non-partisan. No one got a majority in June, and Hewitt is in a run-off against a former Republican state legislator. Here is the endorsement editorial.
How much damage to the public can the gerrymander gang of 3 oligarchs of 5 do
— esp. in a larger pop. county ???
Basic PR —
Party Members = Total Members x Party Votes / Total Votes
Top 2 works.
JR —
Yeah. Sure. — Like for CA USA Senator — so-called choice between 2 RED Donkey communists —
older robot hack vs younger robot hack.
No… top 2 could work if, and only if, voters can vote for 2 candidates to make the final round. Imagine if “vote for 2 to make the final round” would be used. Ross Perot may have at least forced the 1992 election to Congress because he attracted republican and democrat votes. Third parties and independents would do much better and would win more often because no wasted votes. If you give voters at least some choice, they often have a chance to give third parties more of a chance.
PR and AppV – pending Condorcet.
Condorect – number rank ALL choices — with YES/NO tiebreakers
@DR,
What does “pending Condorcet” mean?
Pending Condorcet —
Number Voting for choices and voting YES/NO on each choice as a tiebreaker.
Doing Condorcet math — ALL combinations of —
Test Winner(s) vs Test Other Winner [first choices] — ALL Other Test Loser(s) [ 2nd, etc. choices ]
Choice votes = direct from voters plus indirect via OTL.
Each TW will win, not win or tie in all combinations.
Sample – 5 Gov choices
A v B CDE 2nd. etc choices go to A or B earliest.
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Top N votes in N exec/judic offices – 2 top cops / judges.
Legis – winners to have a voting power equal to final votes = exact PR >>> ALL votes count.
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Computer votes needed in any *large* election.
Also – all mail ballots – Oregon survives.
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Condorcet math [from 1780s – 1780s] based on a 3rd choice beating 2 existing choices head to head.
A>B
C appears
C>A and C>B
C is the Condorcet Winner CW
Mr. C was one more victim of the killer morons in the 1789 French Revolution.
Killer morons got Napoleon and lots more dead —
1789-1815 = mere 26 years of chaos in France —
BUT set the stage for destruction of many evil rotted monarch/oligarch regimes to 1945.
@DR,
“Number Voting for choices and voting YES/NO on each choice as a tiebreaker.”
I don’t understand. If there are 5 candidates: P, Q, R, S, and T
I like R the most and Q the least. I like the others about the same, but maybe S a wee bit less. Can I write this statement or do I have to mark a ballot.
Sorry – mark the DAMN ballot 1,2,3,4,5 and YES or NO on each choice.
Elections are NOT book novels.