Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote in reply Peter Barath: >I guess this is an unjust blame because this thing >affect all voting methods.
No. It *particularly* affects ranked methods, because ranked methods obscure preference strength. While there may be methods which promote the expression of absolute utilities in the votes (one possibility is mentioned below by Mr. Barath), if we set these aside, even Range methods may fail to accurately aggregate utilities because of normalization, resolution, or, yes, issues of strategy. ------------------------ to which I reply: There is no such thing as "utility" to a voter. That is an abstraction used by analysts for which I have seen no definition that is useful to me, a voter, despite having pleaded for one on this list for at least three years now. If you can't define "utility", don't use that in any argument. If you can, please do so. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
