2017-6, The Will of the People

The Will of the People: A Critique of (Simple or Weighted) Majority Voting.  In OJPS, 2017, Vol. 7, 311-325.

http://file.scirp.org/pdf/OJPS_2017042816243705.pdf    (See also 2017-1 and 2016-12.)

2017-5, The BB(we'll)C

Yes yes, we'll debate majority voting, perhaps, sometime, well maybe.  See also 2016-7.

2017-4, FPTP = Fake Post-Truth Polling

Should FPTP, First-Past-The-Post, be re-named as Fake Post-Truth Polling?  After all, there is no post!  To win a two-candidate contest requires 50% + 1 of the valid vote.  With ten or more candidates, success could depend on just 10% + 1, and the world record is held by Papua New Guinea where a candidate was elected by less than 5%.  So maybe 95% thought this ‘winner' was the worst!  In a word, FPTP can be hopelessly inaccurate.  So the sensible folk in PNG have now changed their electoral system to a form of preferential voting.  Would that the UK system was also fair. (Published in local NI media.)

2017-3, NI dodgy elections + consequences...

We said the elections would be dodgy with this letter in the Irish News of 2nd Feb and sure enough, they failed to come up to international standards, so hence this press release reproduced on Slugger.

What's next?  Well, the easiest way to form an Executive is to use a matrix vote, as per this press release and this letter in The Irish Times and NI news outlets.  See also 2016-8

2017-2 Deliberative Democracy

If the sample is good enough, the list of options thorough enough, and the consensus coefficient of the outcome high enough, the result should perhaps be binding.