[EM] issues IRV Condorcet Approval

[Eric Gorr]

At 2:18 PM -0400 8/13/03, Rob Speer wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:14:50PM -0400, Eric Gorr wrote:
>>  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.
>
>Interpret "sincere vote" like this: any vote where the voter has a
>preference order in mind, and everyone the voter approved is ranked
>higher in that preference order than everyone the voter disapproved.
>
>In other words, every voter can put their cutoff anywhere, and Approval
>still passes Participation.

This definition of 'sincere vote' is quite lacking and I do not accept it.

By setting the cutoff anywhere, it can cause an option to win that 
every voter absolutely did not want to see win.