[EM] I eat my words (but not wholly) 2

[Paul Kislanko]

And the DH3 chemical weapon is really nasty.

C'mon, folks. If it's worth an abbreviation or acronymn it's worth spelling
out. 

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> From: election-methods-bounces at electorama.com 
> [mailto:election-methods-bounces at electorama.com] On Behalf Of 
> Kevin Venzke
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 11:49 PM
> To: election-methods at electorama.com
> Subject: Re: [EM] I eat my words (but not wholly) 2
> 
> Warren,
> 
> --- Warren Smith <wds at math.temple.edu> a écrit :
> > I don't get it.  Supose there are 3 candidates.  Do you 
> really regard it
> > as inconceivable that all voters could, without effort, learn enough
> > about all 3 of them to rank them?  I think that could easily happen.
> 
> There may be strategic reasons not to rank all the 
> candidates. This is particularly
> so if you want to dissuade other voters from attempting to DH3 you.
> 
> In many rank methods it is the case that by ranking an 
> additional candidate, you
> can cause this candidate to be elected instead of a candidate 
> you prefer to
> this candidate.
> 
> In MMPO this never happens. But there is *still* truncation 
> incentive, in the
> sense that you still want to discourage other voters from 
> using DH3 strategy.
> 
> Kevin Venzke
> 
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