On Dec 23, 2007 10:49 AM, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now bak to the question. Majority vote may often not yield the > optimum outcome (from some chosen high level theoretical viewpoint) > but majority vote may well be considered to be the best practical > method for competitive two candidate elections. >
Yeah, well that is pretty much my opinion. With the exception that the "high level theoretical viewpoint" that supports Range (whether in 2 candidate elections or ones with 3 or more), by ignoring the competitive nature of elections, makes it a pretty non-useful theory for elections held among human beings, who have a history of being rather competitive by nature ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War ). It works pretty good for predicting how non-competive eusocial animals such as bees might want to hold elections, however. ( http://rangevoting.org/ApisMellifera.html , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusociality )
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