[EM] Participation & SARC

[Steve Eppley]

Markus wrote:

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> Supporters of Alternative Voting usually claim that Alternative
> Voting guarantees that a set of additional voters each with the
> same sincere opinion can never be punished for going to the
> polls and voting sincerely. They claim that - as Alternative
> Voting guarantees that a vote of a given voter for a given
> candidate will never be counted unless all those candidates who
> are prefered to this given candidate by this given voter cannot
> be elected any more - a voter cannot be punished for making an
> additional preference. And they claim that this means that
> an additional voter cannot be punished at all for going to
> the polls and voting sincerely.
> 
> The participation criterion is the mathematical formulation of
> the claimed property of Alternative Voting.
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Borda also satisfies participation.


---Steve     (Steve Eppley    seppley at alumni.caltech.edu)