[EM] approval voting and majority criterion

2004-03-19 Thread Ken Johnson
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:26:23 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Kevin=20Venzke?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Approval is more vulnerable to bad information. The Approval/STV hybrid is notably better, I think. Kevin Venzke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin, I would like to understand this better. Are

[EM] approval voting and majority criterion

2004-03-18 Thread Ken Johnson
From: Steve Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:06:08 -0800 Ken Johnson wrote: Forest Simmons wrote: -snip- A more fundamental goal might be to go with the choice that would be acceptable to the greatest number of voters. That sounds like Approval. The method

Re: [EM] approval voting and majority criterion

2004-03-18 Thread Kevin Venzke
Ken, --- Ken Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : So back to my original question, what is an appropriate definition of the goal of single-winner voting by which the merits of alternative voting systems can be evaluated? My measurement is: If the voters were able to gather in a huge room,

Re: [EM] approval voting and majority criterion

2004-03-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Green-Armytage wrote: Let's say that 55% of an electorate are to the left of the center, and 45% are to the right of center. If a method goes ahead and elects a right of center candidate anyway, then we know something has gone wrong. 11 - L:10,C:0,R:0 44 - L:1,C:10,R:0 45 -