[EM] Rankings made by another method

[Eric Gorr]

At 8:07 PM -0800 3/25/04, James Green-Armytage wrote:
><jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk> writes:
>>What is sincere (= will best achieve the desired
>>result = election of most preferred candidate) in one voting system
>
>This isn't how I generally understand the concept of sincere voting. In a
>ranked ballot system, I would hold sincere voting to the following
>definition:
>
>If you rank candidate A over candidate B, that means that in an election
>only between A and B with no third option, you would vote for A.
>If you rank candidate A equal to candidate B, that means that you would
>not show up to vote in an election between A and B with no third option,
>or, I suppose, that you might show up and vote for both of them, whatever
>that might accomplish.
>
>Anything else seems to me to fit under the category of strategic voting
>rather than sincere voting.

Ya, I would agree. Any other definition would just be odd.