[EM] Fwd: Is Condorcet The Turkey?

Bart Ingles bartman at netgate.net
Sat Jun 21 15:39:02 PDT 2003


Kevin Venzke wrote:
> 
> If people do altruistically truncate, it means that Condorcet is probably
> less likely to elect a low-utility candidate than if otherwise.  But I think
> Bart's point is that voters shouldn't have to think about this.

Exactly or close enough.  The fact that voters have a way to favor
utility softens my concerns slighty about the "turkey" question, but the
possibility of insincere truncation or even order-reversal raises other
concerns.



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