Regretted Turnout. Insincere = ranking.

Mike Ositoff ntk at netcom.com
Sat Jun 13 11:36:31 PDT 1998


It's true, as Demorep said, that if new voters join the election,
the rightful result may well be different from what it was before.
And the 1st choice of the new voters might rightffully lose.

Unfortunately, that means that those new voters have incentive
to falsify some of their preferences--if they can predict the
results well enough.

But, if the best methods fail the No-Show Criterion, and if
it's difficult or impossible for those new voters to actually
predict well enough to strategize, then I'd say that a No-Show
failure by methods that we otherwise consider the best should
be accepted.

Mike 



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