[EM] Introductory Message

[Ken Johnson]

>Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:22:10 -0800
>To: Doreen Dotan <dordot2001 at yahoo.com>,
>From: "James Green-Armytage" <jarmyta at antioch-college.edu>
>
>	I may as well point out that there is some controversy on the list about
>the merits of approval voting. I happen to be a person who is a bit more
>dubious about it than some. One serious drawback that it seems to have is
>that it doesn't pass the "majority" or "mutual majority" criterion as
>defined below:
>
>majority criterion: If a majority of the voters prefers all of the members
>of a given set of candidates over all candidates outside that set, and
>they vote sincerely, then the winning candidate should come from that set.
>
James - Can you elucidate why this should be a required criterion?

>	Both approval voting and cardinal ratings fail this criterion, which
>makes them strategically problematic as well as generally unfair in some
>cases.
>
What would be an example of such a case? Would such "unfairness" arise 
with sincere CR, or is this a consequence of strategy?

Ken Johnson