[EM] Saari reply

[Joe Weinstein]

I think Alex has fairly well summarized merits of the options:

"Approval and its 3-level cousin are basically free.  I'd think CR would be 
cheap as well... the cousins offer more expressivity than Approval [itself] 
... and [all] these methods don't carry the same controversies as Condorcet 
variants..."

To fair approximation, summary evaluation boils down to tradeoff of 
complexity/cheapness v. expressivity.  Here, 3-level (Majority Choice) 
Approval is agreeably in the middle, and moreover offers the bonus of 
meaningful  'majority rule' whenever feasible.

Joe Weinstein



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