Juho Laatu wrote:
Hello Eric,
I think many people might really use strategy that is harmful to them
but looks promising at first sight.
There seems to be an assumption that people would only educate
themselves to even consider such a strategy but stop just before they
discover such a strategy wo
Hello Eric,
I think many people might really use strategy that is harmful to them
but looks promising at first sight.
They might falsely think like in the lines of the Borda method: "last
position in the ballot gives least points"
Or in terms of ranking: "one negative point to the last candidat
Juho Laatu wrote:
This is interesting. I believe that when Condorcet based methods are
taken into use there really will be large number of people who will put
the strongest competitor of their favourite candidate last on their
ballot - just to make sure that she will not be elected.
I agree this
Hello Mike,
Thanks for the comments. I agree with most of the stuff. Few comments
follow.
Best Regards,
Juho
You continued:
This is based on the assumption that strategical voting is not that
easy in real life, at least not in elections where the number of
voters is large.
I reply:
It happens
I'll get to Least Additional Votes after the other issues you brought up:
You wrote:
I guess often also the wish to make election results a linear preference
order is present. This happens although we (in theory) already know that
group preferences can not be presented as a linear preference orde
