Forest wrote: > Now for the interesting part: if you use this strategy on your approval > ballot, the expected number of > candidates that you would approve is simply the sum of the probabilities of > your approving the individual > candiates, i.e. the total score of all the candidates on your score ballot > divided by the maximum possible > score (100 in the example). Suppose that there are n candidates, and that > the expected number that you > will approve is k. Then instead of going through the random number > rigamarole, just approve your top k > candidates.
So we could justifiably call this strategy the "honest" approval strategy, since if preferences are sufficiently mixed and all voters use this strategy, the outcome is the same as the one with sincere Range ballots, i.e., the option with the highest total rating! Happy Holidays from Jobst to all of you! ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
