[EM] Typo: DMC, not "DOC"
Chris Benham
chrisbenham at bigpond.com
Tue Aug 30 13:19:28 PDT 2005
Below is my previous post, corrected:
Warren,
> Incidentlally, since you claim because you cannot explain the precise
> meaning of a range vote
> of 64 versus 65, therefore range voting is somehow horribel and
> inexplicable...
> and you like DMC... I ask "explain to me the precise meaning of
> `I approve of Bush.'"
>
> Pretty difficult, isn't it? And also probably strategy dependent -
> it depends who
> are Bush's opponents, in practice. All of this is quite analogous to
> range vote
> values. (Annoyance mission completed.)
> wds
>
I dislike plain Approval because it more-or-less forces voters to
concern themselves with strategy and the winning probabilities of
the candidates. Using a concept of absolute inflexible "approval" in a
method like DMC I used to object to on the same grounds.
But now I see that it is mathematically convenient and seems to
resonate in the real world.
My attempt to "precisely" define "I approve of Bush":
" If the ballot constrains me to equally help a set of candidates
(which I nominate) to defeat any non-member candidates, I put Bush
in that set. I prefer Bush to any candidate that I don't approve."
Chris Benham
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