Dear Kevin! You wrote, answering Warren: >>here is another: consider the horrible "DH3 pathology" described at >>http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv/DH3.html >> >>which afflicts Borda and many Condorcet methods... does it also afflict >>DMC? Again answering this requires some understanding of voting strategy in >>DMC. >>However, if the voters use the "obvious" exaggeration-plan >>(for A-supporters: A>D>B>C and approve A only) then it seems >>to me under DMC D wins, right? This suggests DMC is killed by the DH3 >>pathology. >>And by "killed" I mean bad news, you really should regard this extremely >>seriously. > > > When you rank frontrunners insincerely low, you're "burying" them. So Jobst > mentioned this as point 17:
That was actually Forest. However, I tried to understand why in the DH3 example the A voters should get the idea that voting A>D>B>C is of any use for them. Most methods I know will not be affected at all by such a move since then still D is the Condorcet Loser. Did you understand this? Yours, Jobst ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
