On Dec 2, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Terry Bouricius wrote:
Jonathan Lundell wrote regarding Approval voting strategy:
"It's also obvious that if, for whatever reason, I vote for
candidate X, I
should vote for all the candidates that I prefer to X."
I note that Jonathan said the voter "should," rather than "would,"
which
is an important distinction...
That is not the only strategy, nor in some elections the most likely
strategy for many voters. If I prefer Y to X but love Z, yet also
see Y as
the most likely challenger to my favored Z, I might well vote for X
(since
I prefer X to W, whom I hate, and want W to come in dead last)
assuming X
has little chance of winning or hurting Z any way, but skip Y, even
though
I actually prefer Y to X, so as to not risk hurting Z, and also vote
for
Z. You might say this is poor strategy, or illogical, but I am
reasonably
certain it is the kind of strategy that would occur all the time.
Good point; you're quite right. My claim might be right in the context
of zero polling knowledge, but not otherwise.
Which is all the worse for Approval.
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