A lot has been said about strategy in approval voting. Here are some
strategies that have been suggested:
- U/A: If the candidates are basically in two groups for you, unacceptable
and acceptable, then approve the ones who are acceptable.
- Honest: Decide what "approval" means to you. Consider
In my previous post, I meant to say:
"Voters shouldn't have strategic need to abandon their favorite."
I accidentally said "should" instead of "shouldn't".
Polls:
Polls don't seem to be popular among EM's current frequent-posters.
Of course neither am I, because I frankly criticize some people
Hi Juho,
>Kevin Venzke wrote:
>>
>>"Margins, it seems to me, is DOA as a proposal due to the Plurality criterion.
>>That 35 A>B, 25 B, 40 C would elect A is too counter-intuitive."
>>
>>I agree. For those who don't know, the Plurality criterion says that if X is
>>ranked
>>strictly above all ot
Why not just use approval voting (or MJ) within the legislature? The
problem with the "nominate 16 and we'll pick one" idea (and the like) is
that it gives a strong incentive to nominate candidates that, for whatever
reason, everyone knows are unsuitable.
To me, the basic way that the approval vot
On 11.11.2012, at 18.16, Chris Benham wrote:
> [robert bristow-johnson wrote:] "the most realistic path to accomplishing
> that is *not* to advocate a method
> that cannot be explained to citizen-legislators."
>
> Yes, but it also helps to advocate a method that opponents can't easily
> ridic
