[EM] Why the concept of "sincere" votes in Range is flawed.

[Juho Laatu]

--- On Sun, 18/1/09, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km-elmet at broadpark.no> wrote:

> Juho Laatu wrote:
> > Are you looking for the English language
> > meaning of sincerity or some technical
> > definition of it (e.g. some voting related
> > criterion)? What is the problem with
> > sincerity in Plurality?
> 
> I'm not Abd,

(Nor Jobst Heitzig ;-)

> but I think the reasoning goes like this:
> If people vote according to VNM utilities, then they'll
> vote their preference among the candidates their vote has
> some chance of influencing. From such a point of view,
> "lesser of two evils" would not be strategy, since
> one would only be able to influence a decision between those
> "evils" in the first place.

OK. This sounds like strategic voting
(in a situation where all are expected
to check the very basic strategic
options/risks).

Juho