On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 15:08 -0500, Warren Smith wrote: > About Scott Ritchie's "feel alike vote same FAVS" criterion > that all members of a feel-alike group should want to vote the same. > Wait, did you just come up with this acronym? I like it, in any case.
> CONCLUSION: so far, all the prototypical methods (Condorcet; Weighted > Positional including > Approval, Plurality, Borda; and IRV) have falsified FAVS in incomplete info > scenarios. > But RANGE VOTING obeys FAVS in both complete & incomplete info scenarios. > Proof: suppose I lied. Then just take the vector-average of all the > votes in your "optimal" group-strategy, and cast them. Q.E.D. > > So once again this is a property of range voting that no voting method based > on > discrete votes can match. > Well, not exactly - Range Voting given a sufficiently wide range satisfies this. We could still have rounding error issues due to it being impossible to, say, cast a fractional range ballot unless you had a group of people do it. So, my question: what actually satisfies this, other than range with continuous ratings? Thanks, Scott Ritchie ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info