RalphInOttawa

Joined 25 October 2023
demonstrator link moved to user contribution page
(Why Ralph ?)
 
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I was a computer programmer. I've been retired for almost 15 years. BediseBeside working for a living, I did runran for political office twice, losing on October 25 both times. Therefore, that's not my lucky day. As a reultresult of losing thatthe first time, 30 years ago, I became very interested in having a better voting system for electing representation. The systems out there all seemed to have problems. I came across the Condorcet methods demonstrator on a Robla webpage back in 1999(?). After many years of trying to find or make a perfect voting system, I triedgave to forget aboutup. Last winter (January 2023), there was some irritating election result, or someone's smart comments ... and I goitgot to thinking that I needneeded to write outmy old ideas of fairness into a step by step process to fix IRV before I was too old to remember. I came up with my MIRV process (Multiple Instant runoffRunoff Voting) on paper. It was hard to explain and nearly impossibleboring to describe.talk Thenabout. I was fortunate to have Googlea SheetsChrome forBook free.and I knew very little about spreadsheets. Howevernoticed I knew I didn't want to learn tocould use some computer programming language. Google Sheets isfor like an old version of EXCEL, with very limited commands and toolsfree. I decided to give it try. No database. Just columns and rows. Now, it's October, and I think I've made something different, something new. Too complicated? Perhaps. I would argue, it's a spreadsheet. People trust spreadsheets. It's all there. Simple arithmetic. Simpleand logic.lots It's aand pushlots of asimple buttonlogic. IAs wouldof sayDecember, you2023, can'tI gethave togiven theit moona usingnew aname, horseStandard andVote buggy(SV).
 
January 1st, 2024, added a user contribution page, includes link to spreadsheet demonstrator: [[User:RalphInOttawa/Standard Vote]]
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