This is my third (and final) installment. I'm sorry for taking up so much
space in your in-boxes, but I don't intend to repeat these arguments often,
and I wanted to get them all together in one go.
Approval, more than any other voting system (except probably Cardinal
Ratings), relies on
Dear Mike,
you wrote (16 Apr 2001):
I should add that, of the 4 list-members that I named (5 if you
count me), all but one also prefer BeatpathWinner to Ranked-Pairs.
It isn't clear what you mean with "BeatpathWinner." Due to the usual
way, in which new terms are created out of old terms in
In addition to the 5 Voters/ 3 Choices example there is the 9 Voters / 3
Choices example (for the benefit of newer EM folks, as usual).
4 A
3 B
2 C
9
Which choice, if any, has majority acceptability ???
Which voters, if any, make second choice votes (unless there is a majority
requirement)
From: LAYTON Craig
Subject: RE: [EM] Some brief campaign argument
1) Approval is unique in that a sincere vote is always the
best strategic vote. However, this is because you are
only allowed to express a single layer of preferences - if
you're preference is ABC, you can only express the
Markus wrote:
you wrote (16 Apr 2001):
I should add that, of the 4 list-members that I named (5 if you
count me), all but one also prefer BeatpathWinner to Ranked-Pairs.
It isn't clear what you mean with "BeatpathWinner."
I reply:
I'm sorry that isn't clear to you, because I've defined it on
Anthony Simmons wrote:
I wonder if other methods have this same characteristic even
if they don't seem to. IRV, for example, allows you to
specify a complete ranking, but during the actual counting,
at any given time, you are either voting for a candidate or
you aren't. While this looks
Like Don Davison and Craig Carey, Craig has attempted to find points
against approval. Although he has done a somewhat better job of it,
I still think there are problems with his arguments.
LAYTON Craig wrote:
This is my post on why you shouldn't vote for Approval in the upcomming
election.
