At 12:31 AM 10/4/2005, Rob Lanphier wrote:
Normalization only works if there's not a third candidate forcing the
distortion (e.g. candidate "C"):
That is correct. Range Voting requires the same kind of strategic
consideration as Approval Voting, a vote is diluted if cast at less than 100%
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At 11:34 PM 10/3/2005, Paul Kislanko wrote:
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.
This argument has been pretty well demolished by Mr. Smith, I th
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 n
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> Subject: Re: [EM] Rob: Condorcet's Criterion vs FBC. Will
> people favorite-bury?
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> At 04:30 AM 10/3/2005, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> >90 v
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
Hi Mike,
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 05:12 +, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
> You said that you don't think that significantly many people would
> favorite-bury in a public BeatpathWinner election.
>
> A voter will favorite-bury if, for that voter, the important goal is to keep
> an unacceptable candidate
Rob--
You said that you don't think that significantly many people would
favorite-bury in a public BeatpathWinner election.
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 probabili
