Re: [EM] AV strategy is hard and that's good

2005-01-07 Thread James Green-Armytage
>There's no way for any voter, no matter how strategically >sophisticated, to know what the best way to vote is. Their hedge vote >could >prevent their first choice from winning (a bad outcome) but it could also >prevent their last choice from winning (a good outcome). Yes, that's just what I

[EM] AV strategy is hard and that's good

2005-01-07 Thread RLSuter
Some of the criticisms expressed about Approval Voting (AV) don't strike me as very reasonable. One person objected to AV in a private message because he believes it suffers from the Prisoner's Dilemma problem. But the leading academic advocate fo AV and one of its co-inventors, Steven Brams, is