First let me suggest again mixes of approval and preferential ballots that I use for the single-winner methods explained on the Electoral_systems_designers site: 1) the universal ballot uses a preferential ballot ended by the approval cut-off; 1) demorep's ballot (message #5 on this archive) uses the same and keeps the ranks of the undesired candidates after the cut-off. This information can help a voter participate in solving the "lesser-of-two-evils" problem without actually approving any of the unacceptable candidates. Thus a voter cannot DIRECTLY (Thanks Mike) give the victory to the less evil...
MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote : > Gilmour replied: > > Maybe, but that does not remove the serious defect in Approval. One person, > one > vote is violated. > > I reply: > > Are you aware that that objection was answered during the last few > days on EM? On EM, we customarily reply to messages that claim to refute > something that was said, before we go on repeating the refuted > statement. > > 1) 1-person-1-vote is intended to mean that each person gets one ballot, > with the same voting opportunities, and counted by the same rules, > rules that are invariable with respect to the name of the voter. > Approval meets that criterion. I define that as fairness between voters. Steph. ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
