Dear Kristofer, you wrote: > With more candidates, a minority might find that it needs to approve of > a compromise with just slightly better expected value than random > ballot, if the majority says that it's not going to pick a "compromise" > closer to the minority than that just-slightly-better candidate. > > That is, it would give an incentive to compromise early, under the > threat that to do otherwise might make the method fall back to random > ballot, and the compromise is better than random ballot even if it's not > all that much better.
True. But for the minority, Random Ballot is usually already much better than the majority preference, so that would be OK, right? Yours, Jobst ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
