[EM] Majority Winners and 3-Level Approval

[Forest Simmons]

Why stop there?

The fewer the levels, the simpler the ballot, and the more meaningful each
distinction.

Three levels is just enough for Favorite, Compromise, and Disapproved, the
minimum required for solving the spoiler problem without erasing the
distinction between Favorite and Compromise.

This turns out to be an important psychological distinction, the main
reason that most IRVists believe that IRV solves the spoiler problem
better than Approval does.

Forest

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Elisabeth Varin/Stephane Rouillon wrote:

> Why just stop there?
> 3-level approval is composed of
> preferred, acceptable, disapproved
> This can easily be matched to a preferential truncated ballot:
> P1 A2 (and D truncated to manifest my desapproval)
>
> What if there is more than 3 candidates and I would like
> to express my full opinion:
> So it generalizes to:
> P1 Q2 A3 B4 (and D and E truncated to...)
> I rank all of my approved candidates.


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