Re: [EM] How Approval locks on to the CW in two or three moves.

2005-01-20 Thread Forest Simmons
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, James Green-Armytage wrote: Forest, Interesting stuff; I'll have to look at this for awhile. Might be good to mention the operative approval strategy at the beginning of these posts, to avoid confusion. You mentioned a few possible strategies in your 1/17 e-mail; I'm not quite

Re: [EM] How Approval locks on to the CW in two or three moves.

2005-01-20 Thread James Green-Armytage
Forest, Interesting stuff; I'll have to look at this for awhile. Might be good to mention the operative approval strategy at the beginning of these posts, to avoid confusion. You mentioned a few possible strategies in your 1/17 e-mail; I'm not quite sure which one you are assuming voters will fo

[EM] How Approval locks on to the CW in two or three moves.

2005-01-19 Thread Forest Simmons
Let's suppose that there are three candidates, and that one of them C is preferred over the other two by fifty percent plus majorities (not just by more for than against). Suppose that candidate X (not equal to C) is the perceived front runner going into the first election. Then strategic vote