The voter MAY have a list of candidates, more or less in order, to vote for.
Pressure can get the voter to study to extend this list - but excessive
pressure can build resentment when recognized as not worth the effort.
Forcing voting beyond this list only gets random choices.
DWK
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:21:00 -0800 Jonathan Lundell wrote:
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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