Whether the fanciful would visualise the Approval method to have checkboxes or accept STV style papers, the blowout of a failure in restraining power of voters is quite a feature of the so called and not yet proven to exist, and hard to find, Approval Voting method. I reply: I don't understand your example, but I can assure that the Approval method exists, and its definition isn't hard to find. Each voter may make a mark beside the names of however many candidates s/he wants to, which gives one whole vote to each candidate so marked. The candidate with the most votes wins. Many of Mr Ossipoff's rules do not actually exist but are boring blimps that lack definition and at least one uses the opinions of voters, if I recall right. I reply: We've discussed my criteria before. I answered you early last year, and that discussion is in the archives. Or are you referring to my method definitions? Who knows? Certainly Mr Davison and maybe even Mr Schulze have been assuming the Osspipoff Approval idea of a method exists I reply: I didn't invent Approval, but I'm not sure what you mean when you say it doesn't exist. Mike Ossipoff _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
