Re: [Election-Methods] Elect the Compromise (correction)

2007-08-29 Thread Forest W Simmons
assuming throughout optimal strategical voting under near perfect information. It seems to me that vote trading and/or randomness are needed to solve this challenge. Forest W Simmons wrote: I was thinking of vote against one, which could be called Reverse Plurality, the base method for each

Re: [Election-Methods] Challenge

2007-08-22 Thread Forest W Simmons
Under strategic voting with good information, any decent deterministic method (including Approval) would elect the Condorcet Winner A . Uncertainty as to the faction sizes could get C elected, but not necessarily. So some randomness is essential for the solution of this problem. The

Re: [Election-Methods] DYN is probably better, but less proposable

2007-08-01 Thread Forest W Simmons
I understand why Mike thinks the public is not ready for DYN, yet. I think if Approval were adopted, then the logic of DYN would soon become obvious. Also, keep DYN in mind the next time you have an election of some kind in a small group. The three main advantages of DYN over plain Approval