[Election-Methods] IRV/Approval/Range comparisons on Wikipedia

[Andrew Myers]

Warren Smith wrote:
> strong candidates that you actually approve of but are not your first 
> choice"
>
> --this "strategic" move actually is "strategicaly stupid" i.e.non-optimum,
> generally speaking.  See   http://rangevoting.org/RVstrat3.html
> and compare columns B and E for large # of voters.
>
> The writer here is advising somebody to be UNstrategic, then complaining that what
> happens if they obey his advice, is the horrible consequence of strategic voting!
>
> Warren D Smith 
> http://rangevoting.org
>   
The strategy proposed is essentially truncation. To be convinced that it 
doesn't work, I'd want to see a simulation with a more realistic model 
of voter behavior. The reported simulation has voters choosing their 
preferences uniformly at random.

-- Andrew