Chris, Your arguments aren't making much sense to me. You quote one advocate of range voting regarding "regret" and majority rule and suggest that all range voting advocates say the same thing. What evidence do you have that most RV advocates say this, or even that it is what the one person you quote really means?
Also, you give an example of a 3-voter election, but how is this even remotely relevant to the kinds of elections that I presume we are most concerned with, namely ones with at least thousands if not tens or hundreds of thousands or millions of voters of many different kinds? As for strategy and the supposed agony voters will suffer while trying to figure out how to vote in Approval Voting or Range Voting elections, it certainly can't be true that all or even most voters will agonize about their decisions or have any reason to do so, or that the sum total of voter agony in an AV or RV election would be greater than in an election using a method you prefer more. If you think so, please explain why. -Ralph Suter In a message dated 1/2/05 2:05:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > That is why I say that the assertion by Range Voter advocates > that "minimizing...regret" is more important than majority > rule is tantamount to saying that more emotional voters > should have more power than less emotional voters. ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info