To make a dire warning about how "DH3 pathology" could cause "massive destruction" if any of the voting methods that are theoretically susceptible to it are used is little more than a rhetorical ploy (whether or not consciously intended as one) to back up the author's passionately held view that range voting is the single best of all single winner voting methods. What is most lacking in this and other discussions on this list about strategic voting is empirical data about how people vote in actual public elections in which different voting methods are used. Until there is much more such evidence than is now available, conjectures about how people might vote given different methods and different combinations of candidates don't jusfity anything like this kind of hyperbolic rhetoric. If the point is to make arguments that are logically compelling, such rhetoric is not merely unhelpful but extremely counterproductive.
-Ralph Suter In a message dated 8/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Perhaps you all will have some comments. I'm quite sure I have not included all the wisdom about wv versus margin that EM has accumulated. But on the other hand I also feel those at EM have underestimated or trivialized the power of the DH3 pathology to cause massive destruction. Warren D Smith http://RangeVoting.org >> ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
