On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 23:24 -0400, Abd ulRahman Lomax wrote: > At 04:30 AM 10/3/2005, Rob Lanphier wrote: > >90 voters: A=7, B=6 > >10 voters: A=0, B=10 > > It has been proposed that Range votes be normalized, otherwise voters > who honestly recognize that no candidate is perfect and thus does not > rank at least one as a 10 will suffer vote dilution.
Hi Abd, Normalization only works if there's not a third candidate forcing the distortion (e.g. candidate "C"): 90 voters: A=10, B=9, C=0 10 voters: B=10, A=0, C=whatever A: 900 B: 910 Once again B wins, but this time, the presence of information about C prevents normalization. In essence, normalized range violates the Independence from Irrelevant Alternatives Criterion (IIAC). Rob ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info