[EM] voting methods

[Juho Laatu]

--- On Fri, 5/6/09, Kevin Venzke <stepjak at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> --- En date de : Jeu 4.6.09, Árpád Magosányi <magwas at rabic.org>
> a écrit :
> > I guess the list might have opininons
> > in this discussion.
> 
> If you argue that tactical voting reduces Range to
> Approval, you can expect the response that there's no
> evidence that everyone will vote tactically, and that to the
> extent that they don't vote tactically, it's an improvement.
> And that if everyone does vote tactically, then it's reduced
> to Approval, but Approval isn't that bad.
> 
> Have fun.
> 
> Kevin Venzke

The "to the extent that they don't vote
tactically, it's an improvement" part of
such a response can be questioned. The
problem is that the tactical voters will
get more voting power than the sincere
voters. The tactical parties will win.
Parties are likely to recommend tactical
voting, not to vote sincerely. Approval
or fully approval style Range voting
could in such circumstances be better
than Range with a mix of sincere and
tactical voters.

(Intentional "weak" votes would be ok
though, but cases where sincere voters
cast weak votes without understanding
that would be a problem.)

Juho