[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:
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> 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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