[EM] PR-STV with approval based elimination

Raph Frank raphfrk at gmail.com
Fri May 1 06:02:12 PDT 2009


2009/5/1 James Gilmour <jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk>:
> One problem with abandoning LNH is that it opens the way for strategic voting, that is, when a voter ranks the candidates in
> some
> order other than the sincere 'first to last' order of preference because the voter knows that some feature of the voting system will
> enhance the changes of the real high preferences being elected if the rankings marked on the ballot are distorted in a particular
> way.

Unfortunately, strategy is often a part of methods that encourage compromise.

However, the suggest modification to STV doesn't actually break the
LNH effect.  There is no disadvantage to ranking all of the
candidates.

There would be strategy for the approval ballot though.



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