[EM] 1-person-1-vote has been abandoned?

[Dave Ketchum]

My STRONG opinion is that 1P1V is an important standard to enforce, and 
that troublemakers try to misuse it to be destructive.

The basic standard properly is that each voter gets the SAME opportunity 
to take part in an election as every other voter.
      Having a vacation address, etc., must not earn you an extra chance.
      Given the same selection of choices, as required, does not violate 
1P1V for a voter who opts for a simpler or more complex choice among those 
offered.
      That a method may allow voters to vote for more than one candidate, 
as Approval does, is acceptable - provided each voter has the same 
opportunity.
      One condition I would apply to methods - a method too complex for 
many voters to understand should properly be rejected for this defect.

This rule clearly accepts Plurality, Approval, and Condorcet.  IRV might 
be open to debate for the possibility of strategic voting - and that 
perhaps being considered to be too hard to understand.  Some of the more 
complex methods described on EM and elsewhere certainly deserve rejection 
- if the voters have trouble understanding how they work, they do not belong.

Dave Ketchum

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 07:49:59 +0000 MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:

> 
> 
> Those who use the 1-person-1-vote criterion (1p1v) have repeatedly been
> asked to justify it in terms of something more fundamental, something
> other than a rule-criterion.
> 
> Apparently they aren't going to. It can only be assumed that they
> admit that 1p1v can't be justified.
> 
> As I said,  a rule-criterion won't be accepted on EM as a fundamental
> standard, and therefore needs justification in terms of something
> more fundamental than itself.
> 
> Mike Ossipoff

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