[EM] One vote per voter

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

>Like I said, depends on how you look at it.
>Plurality could be seen as a system in which you
>must vote yes on one candidate and no on the
>rest, so once again, you have as many votes as
>candidates; they just aren't independent

Good point. Plurality makes you vote "no" on all but one candidate.
A pretty absurd rule, isn't it.

Approval is point system, in which you can give 1 or 0 points to
any candidate. Plurality is a peculiar point system that, oddly,
requires you to give 1 to only one candidate, and zero to the others.

If someone wants to say that 1-person-1-vote means Plurality or IRV,
and call that a democratic principle, then it's for that person to
tell why that's an important democratic principle.

It should be obvious that a method that makes people falsify preferences
and dump their favorite is worse than one that doesn't.

Mike Ossipoff

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