[Election-Methods] RELEASE: Instant Runoff Voting (Chris Benham)

[Juho]

On Jun 22, 2008, at 22:33 , Kathy Dopp wrote:

> In fact, I would oppose any voting method which did "not" violate
> Chris' new condition that even when voters change their votes, the
> winner should stay the same.

Although Chris' voters changed their vote they didn't change their  
opinions between the elections. If there are new candidates they may  
be better than the old ones and also e.g. in FPP one would vote those  
instead of the ones one voted when the new candidates were not  
available.

In Approval voting typically is strategically planned in the sense  
that in order to cast a vote with some meaningful impact on the  
outcome (or to follow the optimal strategy) one typically should  
select the candidates that one approves based on the available  
candidates, one's own preferences and on how one expects others to  
vote. That is why it makes sense to individual voters to approve  
different candidate sets in different elections.

Juho




		
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