On Jan 25, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Juho Laatu wrote:
What I mean is that it may quite OK to assume that people are able to find some preference order when voting. And therefore we can force them to do so.
If we regard the preference order as list of contingent choices (this view has come up in IRV discussions), then the ability to vote in a plurality election implies the ability to produce such a list, as long as the voter regards a sincere ranking as optimal--say that the voter's (lack of or imperfect) information together with the voting rule makes strategizing counterproductive--the ranking just becomes a sequence of first choices contingent on the earlier-listed candidates being excluded.
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