[EM] Voter's Choice with various ballotings

[Forest Simmons]

Good discussion, but don't you think that it would be easier to infer
all of the other ballots from CR than from a pure ranking?

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote (in part):

> 
> >I like Voter's Choice for situations where people don't agree on a
> >voting system. Of course if they don't agree on a balloting system, then
> >voters could be invited to fill whatever combination of ballots that they 
> >want to: Ranking, Approval ballot, CR ballot, Dyadic Approval
> >ballot, etc.
> >
> >But if a voter only makes out one kind of ballot, we can infer
> >the other ballots from it. If it sounds undemocratic to interpret
> >someone's ballot in that way, I emphasize that someone's (say) Approval
> >ballot is only for the purpose of guiding the Plurality vote placement
> >of people who want to place it according to Approval.
> >
> >Say someone only votes a ranking. With only that information, we
> >assume he'd give Approval votes to his highest-ranked half of the
> >alternatives. We assume that his CR vote is strategically consistent
> >with that Approval vote, and that he gives maximum points to the
> >alternatives he'd vote for in Approval, and minimum points to those
> >alternatives that he wouldn't vote for in Approval.
> >
> >Say someone only votes CR ratings. We assume that he ranks the alternatives 
> >in the order of his ratings of them. If his ratings
> >are strategic, with some maximum and the rest minimum, then of course
> >we give his Approval vote to the alternatives to which he gave
> >maximum points. If his ratings are nonstrategic, with varying point
> >assignments, then we consider it a sincere set of ratings, rather than
> >a strategic one, and so we make out his Approval ballot in the
> >especially sincere 0-info way: He votes for all the alternatives that
> >he rates above the mean.
> >
> >Say someone votes only an Approval ballot. For CR, we have him give
> >maximum points to the alternatives that he voted for in Approval, and
> >minimum points to the others.. For his ranking, we put all his Approved
> >alternatives in a shared 1st place rank position.
> >
> >I re-emphasize that this isn't undemocratic, because these other ballots
> >are only for the purpose of guiding the Plurality vote placement of
> >people who want to do so using those kinds of ballots.
> >
> >So Voter's Choice is flexible when a voter doesn't make out each kind
> >of ballot.
> >
> >Of course a sincere ranking is the easiest kind of ballot to make
> >out, and it should be emphasized that that's perfectly sufficient,
> >so that no one will be discouraged from voting by the belief that he/she
> >has to make out a ballot of each kind.
> >
> >Mike Ossipoff
> >
> >
> 
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