[EM] Fixing Range Voting

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Wed Dec 7 01:30:42 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 00:36 +0100, Kevin Venzke wrote:
> Sorry, but you've made the best strategy even simpler, without reducing 
> the number of unwise voting options. One should just give one candidate
> the maximum or minimum score, and to everyone else, 0.
> 
> It's basically equivalent to cumulative voting, except that you can
> give negative points. And cumulative voting for one seat is equivalent
> strategically to plurality.
> 
> http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/
> 
> Kevin Venzke

Actually, this is kind of interesting.

Does the negative points affect strategy at all here, or is my best
strategy always to plump all on one candidate and give full negative to
everyone else?

What if we have a multi-winner election?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie




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