[EM] Approval and "1 person/1 vote"
Elisabeth Varin/Stephane Rouillon
stephane.rouillon at sympatico.ca
Sun Dec 8 21:06:23 PST 2002
Adam Tarr a écrit :
> Recently, there have been a few people on the list making the erroneous
> claim that approval voting violates the principle of "one person, one
> vote". I just wanted to share what I consider the simplest argument to
> refute this:
>
> *** You can only vote at most once for the winning candidate. ***
A good thing and this is why I prefer ranking methods to grading methods.
Yet, 1P1V should be ***You can only vote at most once for any candidate at any
time*** with the generalization of splitting your vote in fractions that sum up
to one.
But approval has other benefits...
Steph.
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