[EM] Instant Strategic Approval

Kristofer Munsterhjelm km-elmet at broadpark.no
Sun Aug 15 03:55:58 PDT 2010


After talking about that Approval should be DSV, I thought of this 
method. It is:

- Voters submit ranked ballots.
- First count as in Plurality. Candidates that are tied at top rank may 
either get one point each, or 1/k if there are k tied candidates - I 
don't know which would be better.
- Call the Plurality winner "X" and the runner-up "Y".
- Using the Plurality data and the original ballots, count each ballot 
as if he voter employed approval strategy A. That is, approve all 
candidates ranked ahead of X, and X if he is ranked ahead of Y.
- The candidate with the highest approval score wins.

Would that method be any good? I don't know. It probably wouldn't be 
monotone, but it is quite simple. Since it's "instant", it would have 
the same problems with regards to ordinary strategic approval as IRV has 
with regards to exhaustive runoff.

Finally, being a ranked method, it would be subject to Arrow's theorem.



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