Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Dorset heaths: Ranked-choice voting and World Univ and Sch's Political Science wiki page, Could ranked-choice voting be a good way in for computerized and tele-voting - using its complexity to ensure fairness?, Maine is now ground zero in the most important battle for democracy in the US that no one has heard about: http://www.centralmaine.com/?p=774118, Design fair ranked voting info techs at WUaS … so all countries could develop their own best democratic practices?, To Political_Science at WUaS, A bit revolutionary democratically, And in a realistic virtual world with all ~200 nation states present in their official languages and with people too from their smartphones voting in these realistic virtual worlds?, Much comes back to fair representation - Wonder how this can be extended with tele-voting? Physical PLACE - the ACTUAL polling place - is still so central to fairness in voting in representative democracies, when we can so so much else online these days, Scientific American article from David Pogue on "When Will We Be Able to Vote Online? Other countries are bringing the democratic process to the digital age—but challenges remain", Tim Kaine‏ @timkaine If you’re still in line to vote in Virginia, STAY IN LINE!


Hi M,

Here's a bit more about ranked choice voting - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/11/dorset-heaths-ranked-voting-and-world.html ... including ...

Opinion: Why Ranked Choice Voting Matters in Oakland

It will likely come into play in the race for the city council at large seat.

By Pedro Hernandez

http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/November-2016/Opinion-Why-Ranked-Choice-Voting-Matters-in-Oakland/

EDITORIAL

Keep experimenting with ranked-choice voting

http://m.startribune.com/keep-experimenting-with-ranked-choice-voting/405096596/

Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff

Ranked choice voting (RCV) makes democracy more fair and functional. It works in a variety of contexts. It is a simple change that can have a big impact.
http://www.fairvote.org/rcv#rcvbenefits

2017 Legislation Advancing Ranked Choice Voting

The following list and map summarize bills that would expand the use of ranked choice voting in the United States, organized by state. This list will be updated throughout 2017 as more bills are introduced.
http://www.fairvote.org/2017_legislation_advancing_ranked_choice_voting

Much comes back to fair representation -
  1. Solutions
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Fair Representation

http://www.fairvote.org/fair_representation

Wonder how this can be extended with tele-voting? Physical PLACE - the polling place -  is still so central to fairness in voting in representative democracies, when we can so so much else online these days.

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For example, Senator Tim Kaine, just Tweeted

  Retweeted
  2 hours ago
If you’re still in line to vote in Virginia, STAY IN LINE!


https://twitter.com/timkaine/status/928049832782188547
(which I re-tweeted here - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod).

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And hopefully this will emerge as available information technologies in each of all Nation States as WUaS Universities ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ...

Love,
Scott

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M, 

This article from Stanford Prof. Larry Diamond, and democracy advocate, on bringing back ranked voting to Maine just popped into social media (T) -
http://www.centralmaine.com/2017/11/05/jim-fossel-send-ranked-choice-back-to-voters/
- which you might find interesting. Any talk of "ranked voting" in Pgh? I heard a bit about it at Stanford Law a few months ago - it's very democratic, but also a bit more complicated - perhaps like
sports' statistics - so could conceivably lend itself to the internet ... but ... I found this Scientific American article from David Pogue on "When Will We Be Able to Vote Online? Other countries are bringing the democratic process to the digital age—but challenges remain" -
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-will-we-be-able-to-vote-online/
... and it doesn't look like this will happen soon ... too many ways for people to abuse the system ...

S

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Preferential voting or ranked-choice voting describes certain voting systems in which voters rank outcomes in a hierarchy on the ordinal scale (ordinal voting systems).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting

Instant-runoff voting (IRV), also known as the alternative vote (AV) or transferable vote, is a voting method used in single-seat elections with more than two candidates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

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Maine is now ground zero in the most important battle for democracy in the US that no one has heard about: http://www.centralmaine.com/?p=774118 .
https://twitter.com/LarryDiamond/status/927354046842728449


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Design fair ranked voting info techs at WUaS per https://twitter.com/LarryDiamond/status/927354046842728449 … so all countries could develop their own best democratic practices?


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/927661303203643392

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To Political_Science at WUaS https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/927635273894150144 … Ranked voting info techs planned coding-wise in all ~200 countries' official languages


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/927667121101848577

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Political_Science wiki subject at World University and School -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Political_Science - planned in all ~200 countries' official main languages ... (and will emerge newly in this wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org soon)

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WUaS seeks to build in RANKED VOTING info technologies in ~200 countries' languages https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States … A bit revolutionary democratically


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/927635273894150144


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Could ranked-choice voting be a good way in for computerized and tele-voting - using its complexity to ensure fairness? ... and also to generate voter turnout and engagement due to ease of voting from one's smartphone eventually ... ?

And in a realistic virtual world with all ~200 nation states present in their official languages and with people too from their smartphones voting in these realistic virtual worlds?






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