Steve
You MAY be interested to take a look at this Guidance on ballot paper design
issued by the UK Electoral Commission, and some
associated documents:
Making your mark: design guidance for government policy-makers
There are only two single winner methods that are uniformly better than
Plurality, i.e. that are better in
some ways and worse in none. These two methods make use of Plurality style
ballots, and those voters
who want to use Plurality strategy (marking only their preferred of the two
On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:14 PM, fsimm...@pcc.edu wrote:
In the Asset voting case, consider that when you trust your Favorite
candidate’s ranking of the other
candidates, you can mark you favorite and not worry about Plurality strategy.
It appears that between
eighty and ninety percent of
Here we get led down a path of rejecting methods for being worse than
plurality in some way, without considering whether they may be better
in other important ways.
Agreed that Approval is better - and very little different.
Asset deserves a bit of study - the candidate you vote for can be
On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Dave Ketchum wrote:
Asset deserves a bit of study - the candidate you vote for can be
part of deciding who gets elected ...
that sorta smacks of smoke-filled room to me. a general election
should be decided purely by the electorate according to rules set
