[EM] Borda: P2, and zero weights for truncated votes

Bart Ingles bartman at netgate.net
Sat Mar 4 01:33:58 PST 2000


Craig Carey wrote:

> The weights of the Approval Voting method may as well be
>  multiplicatively normalised so as to give each voter equal
>  power. However that seemed to be opposed.

As I understand your definition of power, this would turn approval
voting into cumulative voting, or equivalently FPP in a single candidate
election.


> Regard "power", a person should be able to, as exactly as
>  possible, oppose the vote of a neighbour that lives over the
>  fence or any judge across the street.

Can you show an example in approval voting where a single voter is
unable to cancel the vote of any other single voter?



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