[EM] teams

[Paul Kislanko]

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:10 PM
> To: Antonio Oneala; election-methods at electorama.com
> Subject: Re: [EM] teams
> 
> At 06:23 PM 5/16/2006, Antonio Oneala wrote:
> >     Asset voting is a way to quickly aggregate the preference of 
> > the teams, but it does have flaws.  Because you are assigning your 
> > vote to someone who is not yourself, they will often vote 
> differently.
> 
> That characteristic of Asset Voting is not necessarily a flaw. On the 
> average, candidates (who are functioning like electors under Asset 
> Voting, as well as being candidates), will know the other candidates 
> much better than I. Unless I'm a candidate! Now, if better 
> information has any effect on voter behavior, we can predict that the 
> votes will be different. That's the good news, not the bad news!

Anybody who thinks candidates know more than they do and transfers their
rights to vote to a candidate deserves the inevitable dictatorship they wind
up with.