Approval Vote: reply to Bart Ingles

[Markus Schulze]

Dear Bart,

you wrote (2 Mar 2000):
> Sincere Borda points with three candidates, for a single voter with
> preferences ABC:
> A = 2, B = 1, C = 0
>
> Points for same candidate who truncates (standard Borda):
> A = 2, B = 0.5, C = 0.5  (or A=1.5, B = 0, C = 0)
>
> Points for truncator in Saari's version:
> A = 1, B = 0, C = 0
>
> (I got this directly from Prof. Saari, in response to a question)

Do you have more information?

Example: If a given voter votes A>B=C>D, does that mean that A gets
3 points, B and C each get 2 points and C gets no points or does that
mean that A gets 2 points, B and C each get one point and C gets no
points in Saari's version?

Markus Schulze
schulze at sol.physik.tu-berlin.de
schulze at math.tu-berlin.de
markusschulze at planet-interkom.de