[EM] Craig's strategy puzzle

Bart Ingles bartman at netgate.net
Tue May 29 23:18:06 PDT 2001


LAYTON Craig wrote:
> 
> Bart wrote:
> 
> >Are you sure -- I thought I was the only one, and mainly because I
> >didn't pay enough attention to the numbers.  I thought the rest of the
> >respondents chose the ABC strategy.
> 
> No, I'm not really sure.  I do recall that some list members (Mike
> particularly, and at least in zero-info; Forest) have expressed an approval
> tendancy to vote for less candidates than is strategically optimal.  I guess
> we can pick the [minor party] voters :-)

It's starting to come back to me -- Mike said he would likely bullet
vote on principal (but has also stated he would truncate under similar
situations on a pairwise ballot).

I just thought it would be interesting to try to find the definitively
"correct" answer.



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