[EM] Approval is not "one person, one vote"

[Stephane Rouillon]

I  read Olli's mail last time but I am sorry that I have to disagree
with Adam.

Olli showed that putting some restrictions (by the mistress) allows to
obtain an equivalent to approval that
is conducted as several FPTP rounds. However, these restrictions muzzle
some voters at some rounds (read well Adam,
some of those kids have to gang behind one of the contestant, they
cannot chose). Clearly, during these steps, the process
gives a choice to some voters, not to others. In my humble opinion, Olli
showed with a great thoroughness (spelling?) that
approval is not "one person one vote" at every round, thus at a whole.

I am with Tom on this one...
But I am maybe one the rare EM members to rank approval under IRV for
that reason.
Steph

> Adam Tarr a écrit:
>
>
>> In contrast:
>> Approval is definitely NOT "one person, one vote" since we're
>> electing one candidate and voters can support as many candidates as
>> they like.
>
>
> OK, but we can use the Approval ballots to conduct a sequential count
> election where each voter only gets one vote per round - i.e. just
> like IRV.  See Olli Salmi's excellent message from 12/9/2002 for
> details:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.politics.election-methods/919
>
> Basically, you just eliminate candidates one round at a time, in
> pairwise contests, while only allowing those who approve one candidate
> and not the other to vote in each round.  This produces exactly the
> same results as an Approval election, without violating the principles
> of 1P-1V you outline above.
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