Rob--
I'd said:
A voter will favorite-bury if, for that voter, the important goal is to
keep an unacceptable candidate from winning, and if favorite-burial will
increase the probability of accomplishing that.
I posit that very few voters will be in that predicament. It is my
experience
I wish you guys would stop bringing politics into this.
I like Nader, but frankly would never want him as President. Beatpath is as
good as any method that counts from the pairwise matrix instead of ballots,
but I would never want it to be used to count my ranked ballot.
I was really hoping this
At 04:30 AM 10/3/2005, Rob Lanphier wrote:
90 voters: A=7, B=6
10 voters: A=0, B=10
It has been proposed that Range votes be normalized, otherwise voters
who honestly recognize that no candidate is perfect and thus does not
rank at least one as a 10 will suffer vote dilution. It is possible
If you think B should win, the point is made that Range voting won't pass.
Anybody who loses 90-10 in plurality but wins in another system is just an
argument against the other system.
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1- Sincerity doesn't exist in politic. As the vote itself, everything is
always strategic. The concept of democracy is to give the same chances to
all individuals to influence a collective decision.
2- The range main idea is to give to the voters the possibility to vote for
as much candidates as
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 23:24 -0400, Abd ulRahman Lomax wrote:
At 04:30 AM 10/3/2005, Rob Lanphier wrote:
90 voters: A=7, B=6
10 voters: A=0, B=10
It has been proposed that Range votes be normalized, otherwise voters
who honestly recognize that no candidate is perfect and thus does not
