MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote : > Steph-- > > You wrote: > > We all know Approval is better than plurality (FPTP). > > I reply: > > But I wrote those postings because you'd said that Approval violates > 1-person-1-vote, giving voters unequal amounts of power. You probably > don't believe that Plurality violates 1-person-1-vote, and so I showed > that actually Plurality gives more disparate voting power than > Approval does.
I see no contradiction. My logic is: Plurality has huge vote-splitting problems that a typical election encounters around 1/3 of the time (without taking the human tactical interest of expected losers for enhancing that situation so they obtain a better chance of winning). Approval does not have vote-splitting issues. Approval violates "1-person-1-vote" according to my standards. It gives a slight advantage to voters who would put their approval cut-off splitting candidates in two equal groups. It artificially disfavours extreme candidates. But vote-splitting is by far a greater problem. So Approval is a lot better than FPTP even if the latter does not violate "1-person-1-vote". End of my logic. Steph. ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
