[EM] Re: Proportional preferential voting

[David Catchpole]

I pray one day someone will actually demonstrate (and I hope they have)
that purely rational actors with identical information in an election will
always vote identically with anyone with the same order of preference. I
think it's pretty intuitive, and it could be worked out just using simple
principles from game theory. Maybe then the approvalists and the other
"qualitative" election system enthusiasts will sometimes bite their
tongues.

On Sat, 18 Sep 1999 DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> D- For about the 15th time, I mention that mere number voting (i.e. relative 
> ranking) does NOT show any approval of any choice.