[EM] Reply to first part of Chris's CR comments

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Chris--

You wrote:

CB: Don't  you read  Marcus Schulze's  posts?  He  is one of the more
erudite and intelligent members of this list.
He wrote (Sat.Jan.1):

CI reply:

  Chris, perhaps you're aware that I've been away from the list for most of 
the time.

As for May's Criterion, it sounds singularly unimportant, since it's about a 
2-candidate election.

  Are you really afraid that if we use CR, and there are 2 candidates, the 
sincere voters will be taken advantage of because they choose to vote 
sincerely and to thereby give up strategic power?

  Because, with 2 candidates, anyone preferring A to B will give maximum 
points to A and minimum points to B, unless s/he prefers to vote sincerely 
and thereby have less (or no) effect on the outcome. For instance, as I said 
earlier, if the 2 candidates were Kerry & Bush, and the method were 
Approval, I wouldn't vote for either. I'd turn in a blank ballot, or not 
show up, whichever would be better coiunted. If the method were CR, I'd give 
minimum points to Kerry & Bush. If the method were Condorcet, I wouldn't 
rank either, which means that I'd turn in a blank ballot, or not show up for 
vote.

Yes, then I wouldn't affect the outcome, but I prefer honesty to affecting 
the outcome of an election between those 2 candidates.

Mike Ossipoff

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