an ideal policy-making body has two fundamental characteristics.
aim is like an archer’s ability to accurately relate the position, angle, and tension of his bow to the arrow’s point of impact. in policy terms…
a lot of people intuitively believe that ranked choice voting (RCV) is better than approval voting because it seems to be more…
Seattle voters have a chance to adopt one of two alternative voting methods this November 2022.
independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) is a criterion that can apply to either of the two components of a voting method. what are those two components?
i think an under-appreciated distinction in politics is the focus on ends vs means. while people have legitimate disagreements about the ideal state of the world, there’s a lot we all agree about in terms of the end state of things. we all want safety and prosperity. we want our children to be happy and…
Many US cities and states have a ballot initiative process, whereby citizens can collect signatures for a petition, and if they collect enough of them, then a public plebiscite is held, giving voters the opportunity to directly pass legislation. I believe this mechanism is…
St Louis alderwoman Heather Navarro recently announced that she’s stepping down.
St Louis used approval voting for the first time in their March 2021 open primary, sending two women to the mayoral general election, and ultimately electing their first black female mayor.
Proponents of ranked choice voting (RCV) often claim that voters using approval voting will “bullet vote” only for their…
SRMS (pronounced like “serms” perhaps?) is a hybrid which uses the selection method of sequential Monroe voting, with its elimination process replaced by the reweighting function of reweighted range voting.
