I took it for granted that "favorite" would also be among the approved on Majority Choice ballots, and that favorites would be determined from the rankings or ratings in the case of CR or ranked ballots.
But I still think that CS as I proposed it suffers from a fault. If the race is perceived as being between candidate A and B, and the race is close, it would be tempting to list A as favorite and vote just like another member of A's camp in order to add zero to the average distance from A, thereby giving A the best chance of winning. Of course, if your favorite and B were on direct opposite sides of A, then moving closer to A would remove precisely as much from B's total as it would from A's total, so there would be no advantage to abandoning favorite. Perhaps the best strategy would be to vote at the foot of the perpendicular from favorite's position to the line determined by A and B. [How to accomplish that is another question.] In that case the Euclidean distance would make the most sense. I'll continue in another posting. Forest ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
