On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 05:23 +0000, Michael Ossipoff wrote: > Le Blanc, you said that you wanted something that revealed people's ranked > preferences. But why? They're needed in deterministic methods, where they're
Not just their rankings, but their utility functions. > how we provide for compromise in the event that our favorite doesn't win. Is > RB really missing something when it doesn't show our ranked preferences? > Random-Ballot is so much simpler than Hay Voting, that it seems that RB > would be the way to go if we want to get rid of strategy with a random > method. Hay Voting wasn't intended to be a practical voting method. It was designed to answer the question of whether there exists a voting method which reveals the exact utility functions of the voters. The answer is yes :-) - Peter de Blanc ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
