More 0-info pairwise strategy

Bart Ingles bartman at netgate.net
Thu Mar 23 21:24:38 PST 2000



DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Mr. Ossipoff wrote--
> 
> Remember that only 2 things can keep a sincere CW from winning
> in a pairwise method: Truncation or falsification of preferences.
> ---
> D- Perhaps there should be a required minimum number of rankings to avoid the
> truncation problem (and other problems) (possibly based a percentage of the
> number of choices and/or an absolute minimum of choices- 3, 4, etc.).
> 
> If everybody truncates, then the result is obviously plurality.


So?  If your choices are Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini, Hussein, and
Stalin, why should you be forced to vote for more than one?  (or
penalized for not doing so?)



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