[EM] Power of votes with approval

[Elisabeth Varin/Stephane Rouillon]

-- Olli,

I just asked these questions.
If you vote for all candidates, you have no power at all.
You maximize the power of your vote by voting for half of the
candidates.
This would be the optimal strategy if you had no knowledge from
pre-election polls.
However, the optimal strategy with information obtained from polls, is
to vote for your
favourite and any other candidate you like that the poll says it would
beat your
favourite.

Steph.

> Do you mean to say that in Approval a vote counts towards the election of
> several candidates? Do I have more power if I approve of several
> candidates? Do I have most power if I approve all of them?
>
> Olli Salmi
>
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