At the risk of rushing in where angels fear to tread...
On Feb 2, 2004, at 7:36 AM, Markus Schulze wrote:
in so far as election methods are defined only on the cast preferences and not on the sincere preferences, whether a given election method satisfies a given criterion must be reflected in the way this method uses the cast preferences. Therefore, there is no need to include the sincere preferences in the definition of a criterion.
I think there's really two different issues at stake here. To first order, I agree that election methods should be defined in terms of how they handle cast ballots. But to second order, I think we need to accept the fact that sometimes people will cast insincere ballots for strategic reasons. I think it is a valid goal to not penalize people for voting sincerely.
We can quibble about the exact terminology to use (and knowing this list, I'm sure we will :-) but I think it is important to recognize that there *is* an appropriate place for worry about 'sincerity', even if its difficult to measure.
-- Ernie P.
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