Re: OT: For information only !

There is theory about that. If someone prefers A to B
and B to C, it doesn't automatically mean that he
prefers A to C if he has to choose between them. The
relation is not absolutely transitive. I once read a
demonstration how, by changing such or such parameter
of the vote, one can get to a totally inversed score.
This is maths, not politics.

But they are probably many more subtle reasons I don't
really care about.

(Anyway, when the first results were announced
yesterday evening, they didn't say one word about "my"
Esperantist list. It probably didn't deserve being
mentioned, just as usual. I'll try to find its score
on the Web somewhere).

(Note. In Corsica, it is a tradition to make the dead
vote, as well as people having left the area long ago.
I don't know about the donkeys, although there are
lots of them over there).

--- Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...> wrote:
>
> One thing I don't get is why the French do their
> elections proper in two
> rounds. Why not just number the ballots on the first
> round and have the
> other rounds generated from this (i.e. using what we
> here where it's
> used call Preferential Voting and what everyone else
> calls Instant
> Run-off Voting*)? It then means that on the Saturday
> in a fortnight's
> time or whenever it would be you can go fishing,
> riding, or studying
> Georgian grammar without having to worry about
> who'll be elected. You
> can replace the second round with National Study
> Georgian Grammar Day,
> wouldn't that be cool? (Sounds like a party for you
> to found!)
>
> * 'Cept I doubt IRV is a good name for its
> proportional
>   variant as used in our Senate, which is one of
> many
>   things explicitly designed to confuse the hell out
> of
>   people, and is probably more like Slow-And-Painful
>   Put-in And Run-off Voting (SAPPARV).
>
> --
> Tristan.
>

=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


	
		
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