[EM] Rob Richie's criticism of Approval Voting

Jonathan Lundell jlundell at pobox.com
Tue Jun 13 13:34:50 PDT 2006


At 2:18 PM -0600 6/13/06, Jan Kok wrote:
>mentions in this paragraph?

http://w3.uniroma1.it/mathdemocr/nagel.zip (powerpoint)

>  > Jack Nagel, a UPenn professor, has an important new article out 
>this year called "Burr's Dilemma" that goes into how this flaw 
>played out in the 1796 and 1800 presidential election, where the 
>presidential electors (who at that time had two equally weighted 
>votes), made strategic mistakes with major consequences in both 
>elections. Nagel used to say approval voting was better, but now 
>says IRV is better.


-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.



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