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New comment by ClayShentrup in "Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera"

ClayShentrup — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:43:17 +0000

this!

https://clayshentrup.medium.com/the-proportional-representat...

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera"

ClayShentrup — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:43:10 +0000

no, it would not be better. see voter satisfaction efficiency metrics from monte carlo simulation here.

https://clayshentrup.medium.com/the-proportional-representat...

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera"

ClayShentrup — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:42:22 +0000

score voting is simpler and better than STAR voting in every way, and approval voting is radically simpler and better in most scenarios.

https://clayshentrup.medium.com/the-only-voting-reform-worth...

and PR is a red herring.

https://clayshentrup.medium.com/the-proportional-representat...

Kq – jq but 1.5x faster on paths, from a language with no GC/lifetimes

ClayShentrup — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:22:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kanso-lang/kq

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48970953

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New comment by ClayShentrup in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

ClayShentrup — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:44:06 +0000

approval voting would be absolutely massive in impact, i think far beyond what you're imagining.

New comment by ClayShentrup in "White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report"

ClayShentrup — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:49:37 +0000

that's only true of federal elections, not universally tho.

New comment by ClayShentrup in "White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report"

ClayShentrup — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:48:49 +0000

LOL, it's cardinal (rated) not ordinal (ranked), but yeah.

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

ClayShentrup — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:30:57 +0000

i know. and my point was, that's irrational. other voters determine the election result YOU have to live with.

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

ClayShentrup — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:42:29 +0000

that person is STRATEGIC VOTERS, who are about 90% of the electorate. even if you want to vote honestly, you're still subject to the whims of other voters.

indeed, practically the only thing that matters in a voting method is the aggregate affect of what it achieves in light of other voters. YOUR vote will almost never make a difference. you could upgrade voting methods in exchange for giving up your right to vote, and you'd still be drastically better off.

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

ClayShentrup — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:41:02 +0000

it doesn't really matter how you define "honest". what matters is how people actually vote. the only really crucial distinction for "honest" versus "strategic" is that "honest" can't consider viability. in the simulations, we just use "approve everyone you like more than average". optimal strategy is to approve everyone you like more than the expected utility of the winner. https://rangevoting.net/RVstrat6

here's lots of detail. you can run the code for yourself. https://www.rangevoting.org/BayRegDum.html

here's a slightly different model from the late harvard stats phd, jameson quinn. https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/

don't "trust" anything. look at the data. you could also read the book "gaming the vote" by william poundstone.

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

ClayShentrup — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:50:33 +0000

score voting gets better results than the alternatives with ANY AMOUNT OF STRATEGIC VOTING.

https://www.rangevoting.org/BayRegsFig

https://electionscience.org/research-hub/tactical-voting-bas...

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

ClayShentrup — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:49:50 +0000

> That gains it a point but there are much better methods.

utterly false.

https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/vse-graph.html

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

ClayShentrup — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:49:16 +0000

> I vote my actual ranking

no you don't. take a warren supporter who votes biden to stop trump. that person ranks:

biden 1st, warren 2nd, trump 3rd

they don't want warren to be a spoiler.

http://rangevoting.net/TarrIrv

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

ClayShentrup — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:46:35 +0000

score voting is extremely good.

https://www.rangevoting.org/BayRegsFig

compressing it to approval voting doesn't hurt very much and makes the ballot extremely simple.

> I don't see how.

i just showed you how. better average voter satisfaction, better resistance to strategy, etc.

https://www.rangevoting.org/BayRegsFig

not to mention radically simpler:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190219005733/

https://sites.google.com/a/electology.org/www/approval-votin...

IRV is a strategic mess that maintains a two party system.

wonk.blog/duopoly

https://clayshentrup.medium.com/later-no-harm-72c44e145510

https://clayshentrup.medium.com/star-voting-is-simpler-than-...

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

ClayShentrup — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:20:22 +0000

thanks for actually knowing what you're talking about.

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

ClayShentrup — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:20:08 +0000

no it does not.

http://rangevoting.net/CoreSuppPocket https://wonk.blog/duopoly

approval voting actually DOES and it is better in every other way too.

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

ClayShentrup — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:32:23 +0000

preach, brudda.

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

ClayShentrup — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:32:08 +0000

what's so bad about IRV?

https://www.rangevoting.org/CoreSuppPocket https://www.rangevoting.org/BayRegsFig

https://web.archive.org/web/20190219005733/https://sites.goo...

https://clayshentrup.medium.com/later-no-harm-72c44e145510 https://clayshentrup.medium.com/star-voting-is-simpler-than-...

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

ClayShentrup — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:31:34 +0000

nailed it.

New comment by ClayShentrup in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

ClayShentrup — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:31:23 +0000

a common fallacy of basic logic.

with FPTP, strategic voting means NOT voting for your favorite. so at the very least, you'd "vote for the person you'd normally support under FPTP, _plus_ everyone you like better".

but in real life, a lot of people will use intermediate scores.

https://www.rangevoting.org/RVstrat6