[EM] Approval Voting vs Instant Runoff Voting:

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Catchy wrote:

>How about-
>It's effective by its standards only given perfect information. All
>election methods are defensible by their standards given
>perfect information.

You continue to repeat about perfect information. All methods work
perfectly with perfect information. No method works perfectly without
perfect information, but Condorcet is so near perfect even then
that it's perfect for all practical purposes.

But if no voting system is perfect without pefect information, then
it's unclear what you're trying to say in the above-quoted paragraph,
or how it can be interpreted as saying anything about Approval in
comparison to other methods.

If what you're trying to say is that Condorcet out-achieves Approval
in some ways, than say that. We have no way of knowing what your
point is unless you speak much more clearly than you have been.

Mike Ossipoff



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