Re: [EM] Voting reform statement - new draft, please give opinions

2011-08-21 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 8/19/11 12:22 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: These are better than Plurality: Plurality has big problems. Any of these would solve most: * Approval * Bucklin / (Majority Judgment) * Condorcet * Range * SODA Approval is ideal as a first step in v

[EM] the "meaning" of a vote (or lack thereof)

2011-08-21 Thread Warren Smith
Kenneth Arrow has worried that range-voting-type "score" votes might have no or unclear-to-Arrow "meaning." In contrast, he considers rank-ordering-style votes to have a clear meaning. Nic Tideman has also expressed similar worries in email, but now about the "lack of meaning" of an approval-style