[Election-Methods] Improved Approval Runoff]

[Dave Ketchum]

I do not see where I expressed a bias I do not feel:
        For many elections most voters would be happy with Plurality.
        We NEED to have a method that will both satisfy their needs AND
provide for satisfying voter desires when they are ready for something
more complex.

Could be that Brazil is more ready to discard Plurality, though we do have
multiparty races in the US - and thus reason to move on to better methods.

I LIKE Condorcet for, with reasonable simplicity, it lets voters express
order of desirability of candidates as they see such.

I dislike runoffs as expensive for all concerned.

I dislike your variation of Approval as complicated to understand, yet
less desirable than Condorcet.

DWK

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:06:38 -0300 Diego Renato wrote:

  >
  >
  > 2007/8/15, Dave Ketchum:
  >
  >     On most elections many, if not most, voters? preference will be a
  >     single
  >     candidate.  Why is this something to fight?
  >           One candidate can overshadow the competition.
  >           Voters can be loyal to their party.
  >
  >     For occasional exception elections there will be more interest in
voting
  >     for multiple candidates, and it is DESIRABLE to support this 
voting for
  >     whichever elections may inspire voter interest in such.
  >
  >     Fighting complications that make the rules for deciding on winners
  >     hard to
  >     understand make such complications undesirable unless they provide
major
  >     benefits.
  >
  >     DWK
  >
  >
  > Your viewpoint is biased to two-party system. In multi-party
  > democracies, like Brazil, your assumption is likely wrong.  No one-round
  > voting system is able to differentiate them. I?ll try to illustrate it.
  > Suppose an election which three candidates (Bush, Gore, Nader) runs.
  > These are the real preferences of the voters:
  >
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