Re: [EM] Approval Voting elections don't always have an equilibrium

2005-12-24 Thread Paul Kislanko
of the counting method (I think it has been written here that someone has proven that).   Thanks for the wishes, and the same to all! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rob brownSent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 4:11 PMTo: Paul KislankoCc: election-meth

Re: [EM] Approval Voting elections don't always have an equilibrium

2005-12-24 Thread rob brown
On 12/24/05, Paul Kislanko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rob Brown wrote: I'm a little curious, since you seem to talk about multiple voters switching their vote togethermaybe this really represents a situation where there are multiple equilibriums, as opposed to no equilibriums?" On th

Re: [EM] Approval Voting elections don't always have an equilibrium

2005-12-24 Thread Paul Kislanko
December 24, 2005 2:50 PMTo: Jan KokCc: election-methods@electorama.comSubject: Re: [EM] Approval Voting elections don't always have an equilibrium On 12/23/05, Jan Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Rob Brown's "Movie Night" introduction to election methods, R

Re: [EM] Approval Voting elections don't always have an equilibrium

2005-12-24 Thread rob brown
On 12/23/05, Jan Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Rob Brown's "Movie Night" introduction to election methods, Robsuggests that allowing people to watch the current vote results andchange their votes as often as they like would lead to a stablesituation where no one would feel a need to change thei

Re: [EM] Approval Voting elections don't always have an equilibrium

2005-12-24 Thread Rob LeGrand
Jan wrote: > So, it seems an Approval election can have NO equilibrium, and > obviously there will often be ONE equilibrium. Question: can > there be more than one equilibrium? Yes, but I believe it requires sincere tied preferences. Given the sincere rankings 49:A>B=C 21:B>C>A 30:C>B>A there

[EM] Approval Voting elections don't always have an equilibrium

2005-12-23 Thread Jan Kok
In Rob Brown's "Movie Night" introduction to election methods, Rob suggests that allowing people to watch the current vote results and change their votes as often as they like would lead to a stable situation where no one would feel a need to change their vote. (I believe that situation is called