[EM] Re: Is range voting the panacea we need?

[FL]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:33:11 +1030, Chris Benham
<chrisbenham at bigpond.com> wrote:
>  Ralph Suter wrote (Wed.Dec.15):
>  
> them? CB: Range Voting is fine if  all one cares about is  "minimizing
> Bayesian regret"  (Warren D. Smith, one of  the paper's
>  authors)  or  meeting the  "Favourite Betrayal Criterion" (i.e. never
> having a strategic incentive to Compromise).
>  To cheerfully assert, as W.D. Smith does, that  "minimizing Bayesian
> regret" trumps majority rule  is  tantamount to saying
>  that more emotional voters should have more power than less emotional
> voters, which in my view is nonsensical and unfair.
...  
>  Chris Benham
>  
What is the sensible and fair argument linking the minimization of
Bayesian regret
by range voting with the emotional states of voters? 

FL