Hello list
 
I haven't been paying much attention to this list lately.  I recently received a private e-mail from Chris Benham suggesting that I should look at the following paper by Brahms and Sanver
 
 
I was surprised to find that the PAV (preference approval voting) method described is identical to something called Ranked Approval that I posted to this list 18 months ago.
 
 
I went off this method because of its vulnerability to strategic voting and later no harm failures.
 
Take the following example under Ranked Approval/preference approval voting:
 
41: A
44: B>A
5: C>B
10: C
 
A is the only candidate approved by a majority of voters and therefore the winner.
 
If the 44 B>A voters approve only B the votes are now:
 
41: A
44: B
5: C>B
10: C
 
and B is the winner as the most approved candidate.
 
David Gamble
 
 
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