At 08:16 PM 12/1/2005, rob brown wrote: >My wording was a bit sloppy, because it is true that condorcet >SOMETIMES can reward insincere voting. It is not perfect. It is, >in my opinion, really really close....close enough that insincere >voting will not have a significant effect on elections, and most >importantly to me, will allow middle ground candidates to be elected >rather than forcing people into two opposing clusters.
Yet there is *never* any motive to vote insincerely in Asset Voting. In the simplest implementation (and the simplest strategy, which is not weaker than more complex strategies), you simply vote for the candidate you prefer. Because of the Asset revoting, if your candidate does not win in the first pass, your vote is not wasted. Either than candidate gathers other votes or that candidate provides the vote to *his or her* best choice. Simple. Uses the simplest possible ballot (though, because there are no losers, more people may make themselves available as candidates, so a ballot could get long). Cannot elect a candidate without the direct or indirect consent of a majority of voters. (If a majority of the voters or their effective representatives -- the candidates they voted for -- consider it more important to hold out, to delay the election by refusing to reassign votes, then, essentially, a majority is deciding that it is not ready to elect a winner. Why should a minority be allowed to determine that a winner should be declared with less than a majority vote? In one very successful organization, delegates must be elected by a *two-thirds* vote. If after multiple rounds, no candidate receives that vote, the delegate is chosen by lot from the top two candidates. If it were up to me, I'd have the process include all candidates, with the chance of winning being determined by how many votes they received. This would effectively produce a kind of proportional representation.... but the system, as it is, works phenomenally well; where a group electing a delegate can't agree on the winner by a two-thirds vote, then the minority does have some chance of being represented. ) ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info