[Election-Methods] Improved Approval Runoff

[Chris Benham]

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:

>At 09:44 PM 8/19/2007, Kevin Venzke wrote:
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>
>>I would guess that if you searched the EM archives you would find
>>literally dozens of proposed methods that combine approval with a pairwise
>>measure.
>>    
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>And method which allows equal ranking and truncation is "Condorcet/Approval."
>

Abd,
Is  "And.." suppose to read  'Any...', or is there some missing word?   
As written, to the extent that it makes
sense it is false.

>The term "Approval" is somewhat misleading for the method, because a 
>vote does not necessarily represent any absolute "Approval" of the 
>candidates, and some people have a reaction to the method based on an 
>idea that it does.
>
That is purely a secondary marketing issue. Perhaps you would like to 
unilaterally change Approval's name?

>It's a vote, pure and simple. "Approval" is a method which allows 
>overvoting, or equal rating.
>
It is, but is that supposed to be its definition? Maybe you are on your 
way to changing Approval's
definition.

Chris Benham



>At 09:44 PM 8/19/2007, Kevin Venzke wrote:
>  
>
>>I would guess that if you searched the EM archives you would find
>>literally dozens of proposed methods that combine approval with a pairwise
>>measure.
>>    
>>
>
>And method which allows equal ranking and truncation is "Condorcet/Approval."
>
>The term "Approval" is somewhat misleading for the method, because a 
>vote does not necessarily represent any absolute "Approval" of the 
>candidates, and some people have a reaction to the method based on an 
>idea that it does.
>
>It's a vote, pure and simple. "Approval" is a method which allows 
>overvoting, or equal rating. Basic Approval is just Plurality with 
>that tweak. (Which is actually removing an old errooneous assumption, 
>the idea that an overvote is necessarily an error on the part of an 
>error. Why is it an error? Because the rules will discard the ballot. 
>Why will they discard the ballot? Because it is an error. Oops! A 
>very old Catch-22.)
>
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