>> From: "Alex Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re:[EM] How to vote in Approval
Perhaps I've missed it, since I don't read every message, but has anyone come up with a method of automatically converting orderings to an approval ballots in decent enough fashion to make it feasible in an election? The reason I ask is because ordering would be an easier task for most people than choosing where to put the cutoff between approved and disapproved. >> I agree with David that the question "How bad is too bad?" >> can be difficult. In 2000 my lesser evil was Harry Browne >> (I'm a very soft-core Libertarian, hence I call Browne the >> lesser evil rather than the greater good, but I digress), >> but I thought Gore was better than Bush. The question of >> whether Gore is still OK would be tough. >> If I phrase the question in terms of regret, I can ask >> which I would regret more: Bush winning instead of Gore, >> or Gore winning instead of Browne. Because I consider Bush >> and Gore to be largely the same on many issues, the regret >> in the first case would be greater than the regret in the >> second case, so I'd only vote for Browne. >> On the other hand, in a race between John McCain, Jesse >> Ventura, and Al Gore, I see a large gap between Gore (3rd >> choice) and McCain (2nd choice), but a somewhat smaller >> gap between McCain and Ventura (1st choice). Hence I'd >> vote for both McCain and Ventura, assuming it was a tight >> 3-way race.
