Re: [EM] Bart Ingles being corrected:

[Richard Moore]

I Like IRVing wrote:

      Under Approval, Bucklin, and Condorcet, voters of the largest
factions should only make one choice.

What does Don mean here? I can think of three possible interpretations of
the word "should" in this context:

1. Don believes that voters should vote this way because it is to their strategic
advantage to do so. If so, he does not understand Approval voting strategy
well enough to be qualified to comment on it. In Approval, a voter should
include all the candidates who have positive strategic value to that voter.
That holds true whether or not your favorite is a front runner.
2. Don does know about Approval strategy and is simply being disingenuous.
3. Don is a would-be dictator who wants to tell voters how they should vote:

"You should do this because I say so".

  

  
      Under Borda, voters of the largest factions would need to make two
choices, if the Borda method is using the Borda Rule as follows:

Borda Rule:  "Each voter ranks the candidates in order, and each candidate
is awarded a number of votes (from that voter) equal to the number of other
candidates ranked below him: the candidate receiving the greatest total
number of votes wins the election."
    
Why vote for more than one in this case? If you vote for one only, you rank N-1

candidates below you and thus give the maximum number of points (N-1) to

your favorite. If you vote for a second, you give your second choice N-2 points.

You should certainly do so if you get some strategic value in doing so, but Don's

rule just doesn't capture Borda strategy either.

    

Richard