[EM] question re: converting ballots into a matrix

[Kevin Venzke]

Rob,

--- rob brown <rob at karmatics.com> a écrit :
> Because it makes it so that each
> voter's ballot counts exactly the same (as far as magnitude) as every
> other voter's.

I guess you assume that a voter wants this?

> I'm making no guarantees that the result will be "better" in those
> methods
> if half votes are counted.  Maybe it will, maybe not.  I'm only
> hypothesizing that it will.

Well, at least if we're talking about actual election methods and their
results, this has already been debated to death. I'll be surprised if
something new can be said on this topic.

> As a simple example, if you wanted to use the matrix to answer the
> question
> "how many (or what percentage of) people ranked this candidate as their
> top
> choice", I believe you could do it if you had a matrix where equals were
> treated as half votes.  Not so otherwise.

You say this becomes possible by *discarding* information?

Kevin Venzke



	

	
		
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