I thank Mr. Schulze for posting his suggested list of 6 criteria.
I note that with any reform method there will be polls before the election and
that there is some percentage of mindless voters who will follow the orders of
certain candidates/ party bosses on how to vote (as in the recent Norther
I said last week that, when using a flexible point assignment
method (sometimes called a "cardinal measure method"), voters
would probably use Approval strategy, but that better maximization
of a voter's utility expectation could be gotten by calculating
different point values to give the differen
Correction:
In my last e-mail, it must mean "Anonymity" instead of
"Autonomy."
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Dear Mike Saari,
you wrote (3 Jul 1998):
> If these are the famous "Arrow" criteria, then one of
> them (I'm not sure which name) states that the outcome can
> depend ONLY on the "preferences" of the voters.
In a message dated 98-07-03 13:04:34 EDT, you write:
>Of course, there are only six important criteria: Pareto, Autonomy,
>Neutrality, Non-Dictatorship, Invulnerability by Exaggeration, and
>Independence from Irrelevant Alternatives.
>
>Unfortunately, it is impossible for an election method to me
