On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:14 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > In the Asset voting case, consider that when you trust your Favorite > candidate’s ranking of the other > candidates, you can mark you favorite and not worry about Plurality strategy. > It appears that between > eighty and ninety percent of the voters would rather have their favorite do > the ranking. Where do we get > that figure? We get it from Australia where the vast majority of voters > just copy their candidate cards > onto the ballot.
I assume that's because (IIRC) they're required to rank all candidates, and that's too hard to do. I don't think that the 80-90% figure is supportable if truncation is allowed (and it should be). ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
