On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Hmm. I think you missed my next sentence. > >> Burial works against compromise by encouraging voters to rank the potential >> compromise candidate last. >
Again, voters do *not* try to bury their 2nd choice compromise candidates, but try to bury their last choice candidates, or their last choice mainstream candidate, and would prefer that any other candidate wins. As Jonathan noted "burial is a simple, intuitive and attractive strategy that can be easily employed by relatively naive voters." Or are you claiming that voters are all hopelessly idiotic and would prefer that their last choice candidate wins as long as their compromise candidate can be buried!?*! The claim that voters would bury their compromise candidates is illogical drivel. -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 "One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts." Fundamentals of Verifiable Elections http://kathydopp.com/wordpress/?p=174 Realities Mar Instant Runoff Voting http://electionmathematics.org/ucvAnalysis/US/RCV-IRV/InstantRunoffVotingFlaws.pdf View some of my research on my SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=1451051 ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info