Hi Chris, --- En date de : Jeu 16.10.08, Chris Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > De: Chris Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Objet: [EM] Worst Voting Method > À: "EM" <election-methods@lists.electorama.com> > Date: Jeudi 16 Octobre 2008, 1h45 > I don't see antiplurality as much worse than FPP. > > Antiplurality (vote against one, candidate with fewest > votes wins) meets > Majority Loser and Strong Favourite Betrayal.
Antiplurality is just a race to nominate as many candidates as possible so that none of them get any votes. > Very bad is the Supplementary Vote used to elect some > mayors in the > UK. It is like the Contingent Vote (one trip to the > polls TTR) except > voters are only allowed to rank 2 candidates. I don't see how this is "very bad." I could see how you might think it is easily improved. But is this method better or worse than Approval? Is it better or worse than FPP? > Borda Voting is also very bad. It fails Majority > Favourite and "Rich Party" > (meaning that it fails Clone-Loser in a way that advantages > factions who field > more candidates). Just like Antiplurality. Kevin Venzke ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info