[EM] Approval Strategy A- Question for Rob LeGrand

[Gervase Lam]

> From: "James Gilmour" <jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk>
> Subject: RE: [EM] Approval Strategy A- Question for Rob LeGrand
> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:34:05 -0000

> I am surprised that Borda should receive any serious consideration at
> all.  The defects of this voting system are well known, so why would
> anyone want to use it?

No.  I don't think it is a good idea to use it.

All I was doing was putting Borda in a hierarchy structure that showed how 
"similar" one method was to another.  What I basically implied in the post 
was that Borda is as "close" as you can get to Cardinal Ratings without 
actually being Cardinal Ratings.

> How has "proportional" being interpreted here?

I suppose this question in a way sums up what my post was saying/asking.  
For each method, how is proportional being interpreted?

Thanks,
Gervase.