[EM] Center for Range Voting Formed

Kevin Venzke stepjak at yahoo.fr
Fri Aug 12 08:27:03 PDT 2005


Adam,

--- Adam Tarr <ahtarr at gmail.com> a écrit :
> * OK, in the interest of fairness, here is one winning-votes Condorcet
> strategy that is arguably superior to sincerity.  This is from Blake
> Cretney.  It's pretty simple: if you have a sincere tied ranking, it's
> better to rank those candidates in some random order than to rank them
> equally.  So in stead of ranking three candidates tied for fourth,
> rank them 4, 5, 6, (in some order) and kick any candidates below
> fourth down two slots.  There are situations where this strategy can
> hurt you, but on average (aggregating over a large number of voters
> with similar preferences) it will not.

I'm surprised to read this considering all the discussion of how WV
encourages compression of the top ranks in order to reduce the defeat
strengths among those candidates.

Kevin Venzke



	

	
		
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