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
Hello Forest,
Least Additional Votes (like Approval) has the advantage (over many
other methods) of being able to tell the losers by how many votes they
missed winning the election.
Yes. Ability to understand what happened in the election is a good
requirement for any election method - not a man
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
James opined that the winner should always come from the Smith set because
otherwise majority rule is violated more than necessary.
However, it seems to me that majority is just one form of consensus.
Max approval is another form.
Consider (sincere)
52 A>B>>C
48 B>C>>A
Candidate B is the max appr
Hi Juho, and welcome to the list.
>Least Additional Votes:
>"Elect the candidate that wins all others. If there is no such candidate,
>elect the one that needs least additional votes to win all others."
I'd like to clarify this, especially the second part. What exactly is an
"additional vote" in
