On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Steve Barney wrote: ...
> BTW, one reason given in a news article for dropping Nanson's Method and > reverting back to the plurality with a runoff was that they preferred voting > twice, and felt that they could be more informed voters the second time > around. What to do about that? > Smart voters! They recognized that with Nanson you need accurate probabilities to know how to vote in your own best interest. [Nanson's optimum strategy is more likely to require insincere order than you would need to use in SSD or Ranked Pairs.] What to do about that? Use a Condorcet method that is not so dependent on the polls, or use a cheaper but robust method like Approval or Majority Choice Approval that gives good results with or without polls. Forest ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
