One vote per voter

DEMOREP1 at aol.com DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Mon Mar 26 23:40:26 PST 2001


Mr. Simmons wrote-

Another way to look at Approval in terms of one vote per voter:

Suppose there are N candidates. Count each approval as exactly one Nth of
a point. That way no man can vote a total of more than one point. (And
he's a fool to vote a full N/N .) 

You can vote less than one point if you want, same as in single mark
plurality.
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D- Au contraire.  An approval vote is yes (1) or no (0) on each choice -- 
especially for executive and judicial office elections.

As usual, I must note again for newer EM folks, that approval is defective 
because it claims equal yes (1) votes for 2 or more choices when, of course, 
no such thing actually exists in real public elections.



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