Showing posts with label voting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voting. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Abortion on the ballot

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 And in other news, we're in new territory for the American experiment.  This will surely have effects on controversial markets (among o...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Payments for election-related actions

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  Buying votes is illegal, but other election related offers may seem odd but are legal.   The Guardian has the story. ‘There are certain th...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Why I have signed election day letters

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 I am a reluctant letter signer, but this election season I have signed two open letters.  My reluctance stems in part from the fact that, w...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Vote! Here's another open letter, this one from business school professors

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  Open letters are in season, and I've signed another one.  You can too, at the link. It’s Time for America’s Business Leaders to Speak ...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

Don't need no education -- arguments about California propositions to raise revenue for community colleges

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I'm spending part of the day perusing the California ballot for Tuesday's elections, which include not only the widely anticipated,...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

Rank order voting in NY (and in xkcd)

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Vox has the story: New York City adopts ranked-choice voting, a major milestone for the reform The biggest city in the US is joining a vo...
Friday, October 4, 2019

Eric Maskin on Rank Choice Voting (RCV) in Massachusetts and beyond

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Eric Maskin, the Harvard University Professor and Nobel laureate in Economics, gave two talks at Stanford this week.  The first was the joi...
Monday, September 30, 2019

Ranked-choice voting in Maine, and elsewhere

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From the Atlantic: A Step Toward Blowing Up the Presidential-Voting System Maine’s adoption of ranked-choice voting for the 2020 general...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Repugnance and state elections...right to die, and marijuana

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Several repugnant transactions became less so (at least they moved from illegal to legal) along with the other results of last Tuesday'...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

And in other election news...marijuana

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What can I say? It looks like we may need it... Californians Legalize Marijuana in Vote That Could Echo Nationally "California, Mas...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Is vote swapping related to vote selling the way kidney exchange is related to kidney sales? (a blog post by Scott Aaronson on vote swapping)

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Here's a blog post from Scot Aaronson's blog "Shtetl Optimized". He points out that although vote trading is illegal, vot...
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Friday, April 29, 2016

Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen channel Condorcet on American and Indian politics, in the NY Times

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How Majority Rule Might Have Stopped Donald Trump By  ERIC MASKIN  and  AMARTYA SEN APRIL 28, 2016 Continue reading the main story S...