On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 22:31 -0500, robert bristow-johnson wrote: > On 11/26/11 6:58 PM, matt welland wrote:
> > Also, do folks generally see approval as better than or worse than IRV? > they don't know anything about Approval (or Score or Borda or Bucklin or > Condorcet) despite some effort by me to illustrate it regarding the > state senate race in our county. I wasn't clear. I want to hear opinions from the list: Is approval better or worse than IRV and why? > unless one were to bullet vote (which would make Approval degenerate to > FPTP), there is no way to express one's favorite over other candidates > that one approves of. it forces a burden of tactical voting onto voters > who have to decide whether or not they will vote for their 2nd favorite > candidate. i've repeated this over and over and over again on this > list. while Score voting demands too much reflection and information > from voters, Approval voting extracts too little information from > voters. both saddle voters with the need for calculation (and strategy) > that the ranked ballot does not. both Score and Approval are > non-starters, because of the nature of the ballot. but a ranked ballot > is not a non-starter, even if we lost it recently here in Burlington. > we just need to unlearn what FairVote did and decouple the concept of > ranked-choice voting from IRV. When you say approval and score are non-starters due to the ballot, what exactly do you mean? ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info