Finding the probable best candidate?

[Forest Simmons]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> Forest wrote-
> 
> Perhaps using an L_n norm with n somewhere between 2 and infinity (which
> corresponds to the max norm that yields regular CR which is strategically
> equivalent to Approval) would be a good compromise. The n could be
> adjusted to take into account the relative importance of quantization
> error and potential for manipulation in the application. 
> ---
> D- What does John/Mary Q. Citizen-Voter (in the 90 to 110 political I.Q. 
> range interested in NOT electing some left/ right extremist political 
> lunatic) think about the above ???   Let us guess.
> 

I don't think anybody said the intended "application" was public
elections.

As I have mentioned before there are many uses for election methods
(including Borda count) besides public elections.

Methods that approach the theoretical limits can teach us something about
practical limits as well.

Forest