[EM] 04/12/02 - Favorite is the Approval Winner:

[Donald Davison]

04/12/02 - Favorite is the Approval Winner:


On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, From: Craig Carey <research at ijs.co.nz>
Subject: [EM] When is Mr Ossipoff's "favorite" not a winner?

Craig wrote: "I guess we keep reading the EM list and watch Mike revert back to
the old position and then note that the EM members never commented on it."

Donald: EM members never comment on it because half don't read Mike and the
other half believes he is a minor Deity and can `speak no evil' like one of
the three monkeys.

Craig: "Mike never tells us how he knows who the "favorite" is."

Donald: Me Me, ask me, I know, I'll tell you, I've been on this list long
enough to know.  I solved this dilemma about five years ago on this list.
   When one of these minor Deities use the term `favorite' that means they
have eye-balled all the choices and then they have secretly used Approval
Voting to calculate the winner.
   Without letting on that they used Approval Voting, they announce a big
`Divine Revelation from Above', they announce the `favorite'.
   They will then use this `Divine Revelation from Above' as a standard to
prove Approval Voting is the best method because Approval will always
elects the `favorite'.  (corruption)

So, to answer the question: "When is Mr Ossipoff's "favorite" not a winner?"

Answer: When some method other than Approval Voting is the method being
used in an election.


Regards,
   Donald Davison, host of New Democracy at http://www.mich.com/~donald
                        Candidate Election Methods
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   |  "Democracy is a beautiful thing,                                 |
   |        except that part about letting just any old yokel vote."   |
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    APV   Approval Voting
    ATV   Alternative Vote  aka  IRV Instant Runoff Voting  aka  IRVing
    FPTP  First Past The Post  aka  Plurality
    NOTA  None of the Above  aka  RON Re-Open Nominations
    STV   Single Transferable Vote  aka  Preference Voting  aka  Choice Voting
          aka  Hare Clarke  aka  Hare Preferential Voting

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