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Correction: I misunderstood. I now agree with Adam. > You are clearly right, so Adam Tarr and others are mistaken. Truncation by voters > for C elected A instead of B, thus hurting the C voters who preferred B to A. > However, you are wrong about wv. Wv also elects A because > 55 B>C > 50 A>C > 45 A>B > leaves A undefeated (as does margins with 55 B>C 45 A>C and 35 A>B). > So wv has no advantage over margins as far as I can see. > > > But then I don't see truncation as necessarily a bad thing. If > > truncation can defeat a "hated middle" candidate, it addresses my main > > misgiving about the Condorcet methods. > > This is the lesser of of two misgivings I have (my bigger misgiving is the potential > impact of strategic voting). I don't see either encouraging or discouraging > truncation as a satisfactory remedy because some people will truncate and others > won't no matter what the proper authorities tell them. Ultimately, the problem is > unresolvable when dealing with any rank based ballot system because one person's > grade A is another person's grade B is another person's grade C. For preference > ballots, requesting that the voter identify the approval cutoff and then inserting >the > unranked ballots at the cutoff still seems to me to be the fairest method. As > suggested by Forest Simmons, maybe this can be combined with disqualifying > candidates who do not receive a minimum approval percent. However, I don't know > how to pre-determine a sensible minimum approval percent. Should the minimum > required approval percent depend on the number of winners and number of > candidates or maybe based on the statistical properties of the actual post-vote > approval percentages? Any meaningful pre-vote determined minimum may have to > be lowered (or scrapped) if not enough winners meet that percent, but that doesn't > subtract any from the idea's merit. Does anyone have ideas? ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
