Re: [Election-Methods] Response to Schudy re Range vs Approval voting

2007-08-10 Thread Juho
On Aug 10, 2007, at 6:08 , Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 04:09 PM 8/9/2007, Juho wrote: I used term sincere roughly to refer to voters marking their personal candidate utility values in the ballots. Or if you don't like the word utility then we can just talk about putting candidates on the

Re: [Election-Methods] Response to Schudy re Range vs Approval voting

2007-08-09 Thread Juho
On Aug 9, 2007, at 20:14 , Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I've been over and over this point, there is little in this post that is new. I'd suggest reading it carefully. In this discussion I'm quite sensitive to different wordings that are used when describing Range. And if you wish to

[Election-Methods] Response to Schudy re Range vs Approval voting

2007-08-02 Thread Warren Smith
W.Schudy: Summary: I believe it's better to force everyone to vote strategically (approval) than to give power to the candidate whose supporters have the most black and white, polarized view of the world. --WDS replies: This criticism of range voting has been heard several times before, but