{"id":404,"date":"2004-10-26T21:37:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T01:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/10\/the_creative_math_behind_elections\/"},"modified":"2004-10-26T21:37:47","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T01:37:47","slug":"the_creative_math_behind_elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/26\/the_creative_math_behind_elections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Creative Math Behind Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/images\/bo041021.gif?w=750\" alt=\"Boondocks mocking the electoral college and vote or die\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/images\/bo041023.gif?w=750\" alt=\"Boondocks mocking the electoral college part 2\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.11\/\">November Wired<\/a> entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/12.11\/start.html?pg=10\">The Creative Math Behind Elections<\/a>.&#8221;  It breaks down the pros and cons of six different voting methods (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First-past-the-post\">plurality<\/a>, instant runoff, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borda_count\">Borda count<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cumulative_voting\">cumulative<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Approval_voting\">approval<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Electoral_College\">electoral college<\/a>).  You&#8217;ve gotta love this comment about the electoral college method: &#8220;It&#8217;s an embarrassing relic&#8221;.  While none of the systems are perfect, they all seem better than the wack system we have now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a good article in the November Wired entitled &#8220;The Creative Math Behind Elections.&#8221; It breaks down the pros and cons of six different voting methods (plurality, instant runoff, Borda count, cumulative, approval, electoral college). You&#8217;ve gotta love this comment about the electoral college method: &#8220;It&#8217;s an embarrassing relic&#8221;. While none of the systems are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/26\/the_creative_math_behind_elections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Creative Math Behind Elections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":330,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/21\/grief_without_closure\/","url_meta":{"origin":404,"position":0},"title":"Grief WITHOUT Closure","date":"May 21, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an article about my friend who was murdered in March. 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