[EM] issues IRV Condorcet Approval

[James Green-Armytage]

>>I don't think so, assuming that they will also be approving all of the
>>candidates whom they like better than that candidate. So the addition of
>>their ballot won't help the less-liked candidate beat any of the
>>more-liked candidates -- it will be neutral in that regard. Thus it will
>>make the outcome neither better nor worse from their point of view.

"Eric Gorr" <eric at ericgorr.net> writes:
>
>Who says it was less-liked by the majority of the population?
>
>We are talking about only a few voters or even just a single voters 
>point of view.

Perhaps I was being too terse. When I said "less-liked" and "more liked" I
meant by that one voter, or set of a few voters, not by the majority. Does
my statement make sense now? 

Let's say a few people approve a candidate lower on their sincere ranking
list (a list in their heads, not on the ballot), who ends up beating a
candidate higher on their sincere ranking list, by just a few votes.

Yes, those people will regret approving the less-favored (by them)
candidate. However, if you delete their ballots from the count, they will
not change the outcome such that their more-favored candidate will win. 

They cast one vote each for the less-favored, and one vote each for the
more-favored. The effect of their ballot on the competition between those
candidates is zero, and so deleting the ballots won't help them. 

James