[EM] 3ballot - revolutionary new protocol for secure secret ballot elections

[Brian Olson]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Warren Smith wrote:

>> B.Olson:
>> The down side is that since this directly accomplishes summation of the
>> ratings, per-ballot-rating methods such as IRNR and raking-derivation to
>> Borda or Condorcet/VRR are not possible [with 3ballot].
>
> --well, whether this is a "down side" depends on your point of view.
> I personally regard the fact 3-ballot works best with Approval & Range
> as yet another argument in favor of those systems and against, e.g.
> Plurality, Borda, Condorcet, & IRV  (in ascending order of strength
> of this argument against them).

The down side is the strategy arguments about casting an honest ballot vs 
casting a ballot more likely to get you some of what you want. Straight 
ratings does not promote honest voting, but instead promotes saturating 
your ballot to the min and max of whatever scale you're using. There's 
loss of information there, and it doesn't then find the best 
winner and maximize social utility.

> --PS.  Hey B.Olson, I saw your cool BetterPolls.com site.
> I think it would be nicer if the user (poll creator) got to choose
> the range.  You force -10 to +10, but some poll user might
> prefer 0 to 99   or   1 to 1000   or whatever.
> CRV attempts t give reasons to prefer 0-99,
>   http://rangevoting.org/Why99.html

Yeah, selectable range is I think top on the to-do list of new features 
coming. (Right after making no-vote different from the neutral-vote, which 
is implemented but not published yet.)

Brian Olson
http://bolson.org/