At 11:37 AM 10/12/2007, Chris Benham wrote:
We know that Condorcet methods are vulnerable to Burial and
Compromise, and that Range is vulnerable to Burial and what has been
called Compromise-compression
(incentive to falsely vote one or more candidates equal-top
alongside the voter's true
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:00:23 -0700
From: Jonathan Lundell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Election-Methods] Bullet Voting in the wider media
On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Gervase Lam wrote:
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:34:10 -0700
From: Jonathan Lundell
Subject: Re: [Election-Methods
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
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,
On Oct 7, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 08:34 PM 10/7/2007, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
The term insincere is an unfortunate shorthand for something other
than the usual dictionary meaning. In this form of election, I take
it to mean voting, for strategic reasons, for other
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 even
questionable, it is quite sincere.
Which is exactly what
On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:00 , Jonathan Lundell wrote:
On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Gervase Lam wrote:
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:34:10 -0700
From: Jonathan Lundell
Subject: Re: [Election-Methods] Bullet Voting in the wider media
On Oct 7, 2007, at 5:01 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 11:53 AM
In case anyone's interested in what the general public are hearing
about voting strategy.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/07/
ballot_query_to_bullet_or_not_to_bullet
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