[EM] issues IRV Condorcet Approval

Eric Gorr eric at ericgorr.net
Wed Aug 13 10:16:05 PDT 2003


At 1:05 PM -0400 8/13/03, Rob Speer wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 12:37:38PM -0400, Eric Gorr wrote:
>>  This voter still regrets having participated because the vote was
>>  meaningless since they set the cutoff in the wrong spot ending up
>>  with a worse result then what they wanted to happen which would have
>  > been to give a clear win to A.
>
>It states that there is no case when a voter would get a less-desired
>outcome by voting sincerely than they would by staying home.

That's the problem with Approval - it does not truly allow for a 
sincere vote. It only allows the voter to try to select the cutoff in 
the right spot and then to hope for the best.

Perhaps this is the real reason why it would fail the Participation Criterion.




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