Direct LO2E, VA, & Margins

[Mike Ositoff]

> 
> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:09:43    Mike Ositoff wrote:
> >VA counts what those many voters want counted, while still
> >letting the express & have counted their vote for their
> >favorite against all the others. You can be assured that
> >when you vote Nader>Clinton>Dole, you've cast a reliably
> >& fully counted voted against Dole, fully helping the compromise
> >beat less liked candidates, which is what voters want.
> >
> >That isn't true with IRO or Margins. It's why VA was proposed.

> VA vs. Margins has nothing to do with whether votes are positive
> or negative.  The difference is that in VA the strength of a
> majority is based solely on the number of voters on the winning
> side.  In margins, it is the difference between the support
> of the winning and losing side.

So far so good.


> 
> The voters on the losing side are just as likely to be negative as
> are those on the winning side.  So ignoring them has nothing to
> do with how strongly negative votes are counted.

Good, so don't ignore those negative votes by subtracting them.
When you subtract, you erase the information about how many
voted for a defeat, how many wanted that defeat.

Maybe the "for" votes were actually intended as negative votes
against the winner of the pairwise contest, but we're talking
about a defeat, and how many wanted that defeat, not about how
many wanted a defeat that didn't take place.

done



> >I've discussed it in terms of strategy, majority wishes,'
> >and the voters' insistence on LO2E.
> Is this the same as the LO2E-2 Criterion you mentioned. That
> has little to do with VA vs Margins.  Any method that meets
> the Condorcet Loser Criterion meets that.  Simple Condorcet
> fails in both forms.
> 
> Blake
> 
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