Forest wrote: > This leads to another question: > > Are voters more apt to vote sincerely if they know the winner will be > determined according to the rules of margins or to the rules of winning > votes?
This is certainly an important question to ask. But I believe that one of Blake's most important points is that winning-votes does *not* generally encourage sincerity more than margins. In fact, winning-votes often encourages *more* drastic strategy: If A>B>C is sincere and voting A=B>C helps the voter under margins, winning-votes could make that strategy ineffective, forcing a more drastically strategic B>A>C vote. Besides, any strategy that works under margins has an equivalent (maybe probabilistic) strategy that works under winning-votes. I see winning-votes as both noble in its goals and ultimately ineffective, so I prefer margins for its better social utility and intuitiveness. ===== Rob LeGrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.approvalvoting.org/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em