Tuesday, November 13, 2007

HW 30 Voting and blogging??

After attending the lecture by Dr. Vincent Ferlini who has a BS in math from Notre Dame, MS in math from the University of Oregon, Prof at Keene State College, I have learned a great deal about different voting systems. “The earliest voting system came from Greece in 509 BCD” states Ferlini. His lecture entitled “Get Out the Vote” i have learned many ideas such as to educate people on voting, opportunities educate people on voting my select groups, educate people on the many voting systems such as plurality, Borda, Plurality with elimination, Pair wise comparison, and to Educate people on fairness conditions such as majority criterion, Condorcet criterion and independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA). The interesting information I found was that of Approval voting which only list candidates approved of. Also of run off which involves more then one election. I thought his lecture was very interesting but I didn’t understand what it has to do with blogging.

1 comment:

Tracy Mendham said...

Vincent Ferlini replaced the planned speaker who wasn't able to make it; you're right, it didn't have anything to do with blogging, but was relevant to citizenship.