On Jun 22, 2008, at 22:33 , Kathy Dopp wrote:
In fact, I would oppose any voting method which did "not" violate
Chris' new condition that even when voters change their votes, the
winner should stay the same.
Although Chris' voters changed their vote they didn't change their
opinions between the elections. If there are new candidates they may
be better than the old ones and also e.g. in FPP one would vote those
instead of the ones one voted when the new candidates were not
available.
In Approval voting typically is strategically planned in the sense
that in order to cast a vote with some meaningful impact on the
outcome (or to follow the optimal strategy) one typically should
select the candidates that one approves based on the available
candidates, one's own preferences and on how one expects others to
vote. That is why it makes sense to individual voters to approve
different candidate sets in different elections.
Juho
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