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‘1.|0 Several,but far from all, of the following series of posts will be devoted to explaining the need for something called ‘trimmed range voting’. Ever since the horrifically invidious U.S. presidential ‘selection’ of 2004 I have been working very hard on voting method analysis. Only fairly recently I have discovered that others have been doing analysis of the same subject, but from completely different perspectives. Some of those people are academics, some are computer engineers, mathematicians, economists, political analysts, and so on. They have one thing in common: they are all well-credentialed, but nonetheless behaving like rank amateurs. And all of their theories are cockeyed and actually harmful. Yet many ultra-rich institutions spend hundreds of millions of dollars promoting some of their complicated, pathological voting systems.
‘2.|0 After 19 years of working independently of the mostly unrealistic voting theorists I have discovered that the ‘trimmed range’ voting system (or perhaps something quite similar to it) is the only method that can possibly sustain what could possibly be described as democracy. With the trimmed system, we can vote for up to (more or less) seven contenders, granting each one either five or four or zero votes. Such balloting is simple in that the votes could easily be hand counted locally — simply summed up locally — prior to being forwarded to larger tabulation pools.
‘3.|0 There must be no voting or tabulation machines involved, and mail-in voting, with its fatal security issues must be severely restricted. Most importantly, the public must be lifted out of the Disneyland political theories it has constantly been indoctrinated into. The public must learn that they always have power craving, sadistic sociopaths constantly seeking power all around them.
‘4.|0 Until the ‘trimmed range’ voting method is adopted, there will always exist ‘party lock-in’ whereby a few (practically speaking, two in the U.S.) essentially kindred political parties will always be easily able to use the spoiler effect to completely block any contenders who might actually work for non-sadistic governance.
‘5.|0 Since the trimmed range method differs greatly from the ‘single selection’ (‘choose one’, or ‘plurality’) method, some people mistake it for the lavishly promoted, but profoundly pathological ranked choice voting (RCV) scheme. The trimmed range voting method could not have less in common with preferential voting or ranked choice voting. Parse carefully where I said -// we can vote for up to (more or less) seven contenders, granting each one either five or four or zero votes //- (vide ‘2.|0). So each and every one of, say, four individual contenders could have four votes cast (and counted) for them. They do not need to be in sequence, or with each non-first-place one placed below another, which would drastically reduce voter authority. As I recall, several methods are utilized in Australia, none of them are the trimmed range method, and they have mostly led to tyranny. Trimmed range voting could be considered a special simplified form of ‘broad range voting’, whereby zero, one, two, three, four, or five votes could be granted.
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