[EM] Remember Toby

Jonathan Lundell jlundell at pobox.com
Thu Jun 2 12:55:57 PDT 2011


On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:14 PM, fsimmons at pcc.edu wrote:
> 
> In the Asset voting case, consider that when you trust your Favorite candidate’s ranking of the other 
> candidates, you can mark you favorite and not worry about Plurality strategy.   It appears that between 
> eighty and ninety percent of the voters would rather have their favorite do the ranking.  Where do we get 
> that figure?  We get it from  Australia where the vast majority of voters just copy their candidate cards 
> onto the ballot. 

I assume that's because (IIRC) they're required to rank all candidates, and that's too hard to do. I don't think that the 80-90% figure is supportable if truncation is allowed (and it should be).


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