Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: > Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:10 PM > To: Antonio Oneala; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EM] teams > > At 06:23 PM 5/16/2006, Antonio Oneala wrote: > > Asset voting is a way to quickly aggregate the preference of > > the teams, but it does have flaws. Because you are assigning your > > vote to someone who is not yourself, they will often vote > differently. > > That characteristic of Asset Voting is not necessarily a flaw. On the > average, candidates (who are functioning like electors under Asset > Voting, as well as being candidates), will know the other candidates > much better than I. Unless I'm a candidate! Now, if better > information has any effect on voter behavior, we can predict that the > votes will be different. That's the good news, not the bad news!
Anybody who thinks candidates know more than they do and transfers their rights to vote to a candidate deserves the inevitable dictatorship they wind up with. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
