>Approval Voting
. Therefore he defines "sincerity" in
>such a way that even bullet voting is a "sincere" >voting behaviour under Approval Voting. > >Therefore you should ask yourself: "Is bullet voting >a sincere voting behaviour?" And if your answer is "No!"Some of us here have agreed that there's nothing insincere about not voting a
sincere preference. "Which do you prefer, chocolate or vanilla?" "I won't answer that."
That isn't an insincere answer. The person is merely refusing to make a statement.
Insincerity would be if he said he prefers chocolate when really he prefers vanilla.
So that's one reason why, in Approval, voting for Gore & Nader, and not voting one's
preference between them , isn't insincere. But, in any case, even if you, Markus, believe
that it's insincere to decline to express a sincere preference, then even you must not
believe that it's insincere when it's unavoidable. That's why my initial sincerity definition
was worded: "...or leave unvoted a sincere preference which the balloting system in use
would have allowed him to vote in addition to the preferences that he actually voted."
I was in a hurry when I replied to this before. When applied to Approval, my
initial definition of sincerity means the same thing as that which Brams & Fishburn
apply to Approval. That's what I meant to say before.
Mike Ossipoff
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