[EM] Dave on approval, ranked ballots

Eric Gorr eric at ericgorr.net
Wed Jul 27 07:13:43 PDT 2005


Kevin Venzke wrote:

> With ranked ballots one can't be sure that
> the method won't pick and choose what information to use, or even (in the
> first example) use the information to elect the ballot's last choice.

I do wish that the various Condorcet Methods passed the Participation 
Criterion, much like I wish Approval Voting was  guaranteed to select 
the winner which would have received 50%+1 of the first place votes if a 
ranked ballot method has been used.



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