Warren, >What I said was, I think there is a substantial SUBCLASS of elections, >in which, all voters (except perhaps for a few who are insane or writing >illegible ballots or something random like that) will want to provide full >rankings. > I agree with you, and for elections like that there would be little or no demand for FBC so using MDD//Approval in them would not be ideal. Voters who "want to provide full rankings" by definition aren't interested in insincerely equal-ranking at the top to take advantage of FBC.
Rather I think Kevin and Mike have in mind elections in which voters are accustomed to Compromising to try to block the election of some Greater Evil candidate Australia is a country that mostly doesn't allow truncation in IRV elections. IRV was first introduced in Australia by a government whose "side of politics" (the Conservatives) was being hurt by vote-splitting. The political parties like the game of making preference-swap deals and implementing them by handing out "how-to-vote" cards. "Compulsory preferences" is viewed by some as being in the same spirit as "compulsory voting" (which is popular in Australia). Chris Benham http://www.fairvote.org/articles/reilly.pdf > > ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
