James, Juho and Fred, Thanks very much for looking at the argument.
An individual vote has no effect on the formal outcome of the
election; whether the vote is cast or not, the outcome is the same
regardless.
James Gilmour wrote:
These statements worry me - surely they contain a logical
I like this. Regarding how approval is inferred, I'm also happy with Forest's
idea of using Range
(aka Score) type ballots (on which voters give their most preferred candidates
the highest numerical
scores) and interpreting any score above zero as approval and breaking approval
ties as any