[EM] Fwd: 2008 election fiasco is preventable

Jonathan Lundell jlundell at pobox.com
Fri Jul 13 13:35:04 PDT 2007


On Jul 13, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:

> Yes, it does not solve all problems. But Approval Voting is a very
> good system, one of the best. Higher resolution Range is better. In
> the other direction, Condorcet methods are arguably better in some
> ways. Approval is *clearly* better than so-called Instant Runoff
> Voting, and it is a whole lot simpler to implement.

"Better" only if you don't care that voting for your second (or  
lower) choices hurts the chances of your first choice.



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