[EM] Approval vs Plurality?

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Steph--

You wrote:

We all know Approval is better than plurality (FPTP).

I reply:

But I wrote those postings because you'd said that Approval violates
1-person-1-vote, giving voters unequal amounts of power. You probably
don't believe that Plurality violates 1-person-1-vote, and so I showed
that actually Plurality gives more disparate voting power than
Approval does.

You continued:

Is there a utility analysis that could be done
comparing Approval to Condorcet (RP(wv) for example)?

I reply:

Probably, but I haven't heard of anyone considering Condorcet or
IRV with regards to the greatest factor by which different voters'
ballot-expectation can differ. I haven't gotten to that because of
other voting system projects, but I hope that someone will post about
that subject before I finally get to doing so.

Mike Ossipoff

Steph

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