James Green-Armytage
Annotated links to archived EM postings
A lot of my writing on the subject of voting methods has been in the form of postings to the Election Methods mailing list. Since there are a lot of different postings, I haven't copied them all into my pages here, nor have I written a separate link and introduction for each of them. Instead, since the EM list archives are grouped by month, and can be arranged according to author, I have made separate links to each month in which I contributed. To find my postings, you just have to scroll down to the section of the page where "James Green-Armytage" appears over and over again.
On this page, I've annotated the links with a brief outline of the key issues which I wrote about during each month.
July 2003
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2003-July/author.html
29 posts. This was my first month on the list; I was very excited about it and everything. I was interning at the Center for Voting and Democracy at the time, so between that and the time I spent on the list, I was very fully immersed in voting methods.
Posts include “the responsiveness of Condorcet”, “the value of first choice votes”, some arguments in favor of STV and CPO-STV, a debate about district magnitude in STV, and a proposal for CPO-STV shortcuts.
August 2003
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2003-August/author.html
33 posts. The second of the two months in which I was a CVD intern and an EM list contributor.
Posts include an IRV vs. plurality thread, a proposal for local CPO-STV, and 17 posts on the vulnerability of Condorcet to strategic manipulation.
September 2003
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2003-September/author.html
6 posts. Back to school for my last term at Antioch, so I wasn’t spending as much time on the EM list. Most of the posts here are a discussion about the limitations of approval voting.
October 2003
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2003-October/author.html
8 posts. Here I made my first proposal for a proxy / direct democracy system. I also asked a few questions around this time, to fill gaps in my voting methods survey.
December 2003
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2003-December/011393.html
Just one post here, so the link goes straight to it. It’s the first version of my proposal for an iterative Condorcet procedure.
January 2004
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-January/author.html
5 posts. I had just moved to California, was pretty busy with my new internship, and didn’t own a computer. The only post that seems memorable is “Condorcet strategy and anti-reversal enhancements”.
February 2004
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-February/author.html
9 posts. Nothing too memorable here.
March 2004
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-March/author.html
19 posts. With the end of my internship, I started to get back in the swing of things a bit.
Posts include some more criticism of approval voting, my second proxy / direct democracy proposal (dealing more with implementation issues than the first), some discussion about that proposal, some inquiry about equal rankings IRV, and an attempt to clarify and simplify strategy terms.
April 2004
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-April/author.html
15 posts, including a copy of my letter to CVD about their IRV vs. Condorcet paper.
May 2004
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-May/author.html
27 posts. Topics include further discussion on proxy / direct democracy, my reciprocal pairing proposal, my collective budget setting proposal, and another thread on strategic manipulation in Condorcet’s method.
June 2004
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-June/author.html
48 posts. Topics include an approval vs. IRV thread, some more discussion of equal rankings IRV, and my proposal for the cardinal-weighted pairwise comparison method.
July 2004
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-July/author.html
15 posts. Topics include further discussion of the cardinal-weighted pairwise method, and a new version of my proxy system proposal.
August 2004
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-August/author.html
30 posts. Topics include proxy systems, strategic equilibria, and cardinal-weighted pairwise.
September 2004
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-September/author.html
42 posts. Topics include the presidential election, cardinal-weighted pairwise, the electoral college, and the Borda count.
October 2004
http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2004-October/author.html
13 posts. Topics include equal-rankings IRV and cardinal-weighted pairwise.