By your definition forcing every voter to put A=B=....=H=I would be a "ranked electoral method".
IMHO, it is not For all x and y, either x R y or y R x you want, it is For all x and y, ALL x R y or y R x ARE EXPRESSABLE... Sorry, I'm still with Alex for now. Eric Gorr wrote : > A > At 9:23 AM -0400 8/4/03, Stephane Rouillon wrote: > >Alex Small a �crit : > > > >> Can I please get some back-up here? Somebody, anybody, please back me up > >> on this? I can't believe how difficult it is to drive home the point that > > > Approval Voting is not a ranked method. > >> > > >Approval is not a ranked method. > >It allows to represent preferential ballots that contain only one > >preference symbol: (A=B=C=...=D) > (E=F=G...=H) > >So Approval allows to represent equal rankings, but it > >does not allow to represent ballots containing many > >preference symbols (>). > > Approval is a ranked method by Arrow's Axioms > which only requires voters express their opinion > on the comparison between candidates through the > following relation: > > For all x and y, either x R y or y R x > > Now, since R can be either '=' or '>', Approval > does not violate this. At best, it could probably > be called a 'weak' ranked method, but a ranked > method, nonetheless. > > -- > == Eric Gorr ========= http://www.ericgorr.net ========= ICQ:9293199 === > "Therefore the considerations of the intelligent always include both > benefit and harm." - Sun Tzu > == Insults, like violence, are the last refuge of the incompetent... === ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
