[EM] piling on against IRV

[Jameson Quinn]

2010/5/9 Jonathan Lundell <jlundell at pobox.com>

> On May 9, 2010, at 8:57 AM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
>
> > how about expanding the definition of Later-No-Harm (can we find a name
> for it?) to include later harming one's political interest (not *just* their
> favorite candidate) by sincerely voting their conscience?
>
> That's called 'manipulability', and good luck finding a method that avoids
> it (short of random selection, of course).
>
> Sure. But you can minimize it. I touched on that in my "8 of 9: fairness"
post. Basically, you want to minimize the average utility gained by
strategic voters, and maximize the dishonesty required to gain that utility
(because the dishonesty is also the risk of strategy).

JQ
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