Can you share a link to the full text? I'm not finding it.

I think we should pursue positive change wherever we get traction. Getting experience with PR is critical to getting people behind an initiative to adopt it at the state level. Local government often has some of the biggest impacts on people and is pretty darn important.

City council elections often have little to do with party politics. Several have adopted PR without an intermediate step. The linked article doesn't seem to address municipal elections.

Domination is often a problem, and it's rare that any particular faction somehow stands for worthy compromise on all issues. So ensuring that significant factions all get proportional representation remains important.

I agree that people would like parties better if they had more choice.
What proposals do you have for breaking the duopoly? PR seems like the best bet to me.

Compared to most city councils using either single-winner districts or at-large block plurality, and which are typically dominated by the largest faction. PR is unsurprisingly producing a much more representative council, as designed, and being viewed favorably by the voters.

I'd always love more evidence and study. But another data point is that over half of voters in Colorado are unaffiliated with any party, and the percentage is growing. Many other states are similar.

STV is very sensitive to elimination order, and it is infeasible in general to even figure out the margin of victory, making Risk-Limiting Audits (RLA) of STV a nightmare. So I agree it is more chaotic than PAV, which is linear and easy to find the margin of victory and deal with discrepancies.

Parties are deeply distrusted by voters in the US, so party list methods will not gain traction.
The movement to primary elections a century ago was intended to take candidate selection out of the "smoke-filled rooms" of party insiders.
That's the chaos that Swedish parties successfully fought.

Interesting, I'd love references. But most municipal elections in the United States are non-partisan. STV has worked well in Cambridge MA for nearly a century, as well as in many other cities a century ago including Boulder. It is now working well in Portland OR and elsewhere. PAV should as well.

...And certainly not the AWFUL form of RCV that Utah has been using, which is anti-proportional and should make any "RCV" fan embarrassed.
And unfortunately, STV is sometimes just plain impossible to audit - you don't even know how close the election really was (the margin of victory). Dangerous....

I'd say It should help.
But for real progress, we need Proportional Representation, in the form of Proportional Approval Voting (which is straightforward to audit) or via STV, the *other* much better form of "RCV". The one that Portland adopted, not the IRV that New York adopted.....

I am so, so heartbroken to hear this. I've corresponded and worked with Jameson for several years. He was an incredibly brilliant, kind, committed champion of so many good causes. His work on election methods was unparalleled. Please let me know of any celebrations of his life.

For more on the point that Clare makes, see what Chetan Nayak Says in
Comment #31 at Shtetl-Optimized, along with other comments criticizing Microsoft for putting press releases out before peer review: scottaaronson.blog?p=8669

Yikes! Can someone clarify the context? Does this mean all advisory committees within DHS currently have zero members? And that there is an implicit call for people anywhere to apply for membership, to be vetted in some unspecified manner going forward? Is there a list somewhere of such committees?

Glad to see you here! That looks like the cat Nicky I had at age 8 ❤️

I was surprised when they went to questions withoug showing us the insides. Glad that the first question/answer quickly cleared that up. They're just moving at the speed of science, not media. Good work! And surprising!
Did they clarify that earlier in the press conference? If so, I missed it...

But we need to get these points out to the world, not just those who have managed to get an invite code to a network that requires an account to see the content.
Or what is the best current writeup on the open web?
My attempt to get it unrolled and posted seems to have failed.

@unroll.bsky.social: unroll