[Election-Methods] Response to Schudy re Range vs Approval voting

[Juho]

On Aug 7, 2007, at 23:13 , Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
> Giving someone rating points is giving them votes. Range 100 is  
> like having 100 votes, to cast in an Approval election. If Range  
> gives some putative advantage to "strategic voters," so too does  
> Approval, to blocks of same. It is an imaginary objection to Range,  
> accusing it of fomenting what other methods *require*.

Approval doesn't give the voters any other alternative but to use the  
min and max values. If one wants to describe Range in a way that  
avoids the problems of giving strategic/exaggerating voters more  
power then it is best to describe it like you did, as an Approval  
like election with option to use also less powerful values than the  
(generally used) min and max values are.

Juho




	
	
		
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