[EM] Then what's wrong with Random-Ballot?

[Peter de Blanc]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 05:23 +0000, Michael Ossipoff wrote:
> Le Blanc, you said that you wanted something that revealed people's ranked 
> preferences. But why? They're needed in deterministic methods, where they're 

Not just their rankings, but their utility functions.

> how we provide for compromise in the event that our favorite doesn't win. Is 
> RB really missing something when it doesn't show our ranked preferences?

> Random-Ballot is so much simpler than Hay Voting, that it seems that RB 
> would be the way to go if we want to get rid of strategy with a random 
> method.

Hay Voting wasn't intended to be a practical voting method. It was
designed to answer the question of whether there exists a voting method
which reveals the exact utility functions of the voters. The answer is
yes :-)

- Peter de Blanc