[EM] PR for USA or UK

[Toby Pereira]

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From: Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com>
To: Toby Pereira <tdp201b at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: EM <election-methods at lists.electorama.com>
Sent: Sun, 24 July, 2011 19:45:06
Subject: Re: [EM] PR for USA or UK



>I don't necessarily think sophisticated voters are required in order to ensure 
>reasonable PR under PRV. I think as long as you don't get some candidates who 
>>have much better strategic voters than others, it should do OK.

>You should read some of Schulze's papers about the history of free riding. It 
>seems clear from those examples that there are examples of parties with better 
>or >worse free-riding vote-management capabilities. So I would worry about this 
>distorting results.

OK, I might look into it. But you could probably legislate against blatant 
suggestions to vote in a specific way from certain parties. It would still exit 
"unofficially" with discussions online and elsewhere but anyone would have 
access to the information. I'm sure Warren's got an answer too. ;)
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