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From: Jameson Quinn <[email protected]>
To: Toby Pereira <[email protected]>
Cc: EM <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, 24 July, 2011 19:45:06
Subject: Re: [EM] PR for USA or UK
>I don't necessarily think sophisticated voters are required in order to ensure
>reasonable PR under PRV. I think as long as you don't get some candidates who
>>have much better strategic voters than others, it should do OK.
>You should read some of Schulze's papers about the history of free riding. It
>seems clear from those examples that there are examples of parties with better
>or >worse free-riding vote-management capabilities. So I would worry about
>this
>distorting results.
OK, I might look into it. But you could probably legislate against blatant
suggestions to vote in a specific way from certain parties. It would still exit
"unofficially" with discussions online and elsewhere but anyone would have
access to the information. I'm sure Warren's got an answer too. ;)
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