Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
If you don't want to use the term sincere here, that's fine by me;
let's use something else. Let's find some term that describes an
ideal method in which a voter can express his true (dictatorial,
perhaps benevolently so, perhaps not) preferences without worrying
On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 07:04 PM 10/8/2007, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
Are we saying that a bullet vote for Abraham Lincoln is insincere?
Why? The voter has essentially set an approval cutoff between
Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler. In this case, that isn't
At 11:03 AM 10/9/2007, Chris Benham wrote:
Abd,
What do you propose if the Range winner is pairwise beaten by more
than one candidate?
Chris Benham
An obvious question of great interest to election methods experts.
Not of much interest practically speaking. If it is sum-of-votes
range,
At 12:22 PM 10/9/2007, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
As a side note on this discussion, the Green Party of California (as
well as GPUS, which adopted similar rules) uses an STV variation that
allows for leaving seats empty. We use BC-like STV with an additional
rule that, to be deemed elected, a
