EM list--
When I said that someone who decides to show up vote,
in an IRV (Alternative Vote) election, can make his last choice
win thereby, when that wouldn't have happened had that voter
stayed home, I mean that that can happen even if the voter
votes sincerely. IRV fails Participation as you
Dear Steve,
you wrote (5 May 2000):
The wording of the participation criterion by Herve Moulin
(Axioms of Cooperative Decision Making, Cambridge University
Press, 1988, p.239) refers to a single voter, not a group:
Participation: Say that candidate a is elected from the set A
by the
Steve had said:
A criterion like SARC seems better than participation when the
voters are sophisticated (and unconstrained by accountability,
e.g., secret ballot), since it is unreasonable to compare only
sincere voting and the abstention strategy when other strategies
may be
I've only heard of one person advocating such a
method, and he didn't have a proposal, only the suggestion
that maybe a good method of that type could someday be found.
Markus said--
I guess that you are talking about Albert Langer. But remember
e.g. that Lucien Saumur promotes
