On 15 Jun 2005 at 18:32 UTC-0700, Dave Ketchum wrote: >On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:15:50 +0200 (CEST) Kevin Venzke wrote: > >> Ted, >> --- Araucaria Araucana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : >> >>>Approval voting is a reasonable first step. But what do you do about >>>current top-two runoffs, or primaries in general? > > > You should be glad to be rid of top-two runoffs - too often, by locking > out the third candidate, they lock out the truly best liked candidate - > think of voter desires as follows, but voting Plurality plus > top-two:
You all are missing the point of my original question. Abd advocates allowing overvotes to instantly enable approval voting. But sneaking approval in this way doesn't solve the more general problem of eliminating the primary. I *do* want to eliminate the primary, since it is merely an artifact of plurality/SVFPP. So sure, I say go ahead and allow overvoting. But don't lose sight of the end goal. Q -- araucaria dot araucana at gmail dot com http://www.metafilter.com/user/23101 http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/User:Araucaria Q = Qoph = "monkey/knot" -- see http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/alphabet.html ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
