[EM] Pre-election polls to assist strategic voting in plurality elections

[Richard Fobes]

On 10/12/2011 5:25 PM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
 > ... then there could be website
 > Pluralilty-strategy calculators, to advise people on whom they should
 > vote for, given their (or someone’s) estimate of the frontrunner
 > probabilities, and given the individual’s estimates of the
 > merit-differences among the candidates. ...

A Canadian election-method reform advocate, Eduard Hiebert, is 
attempting to do this for the parliamentary elections in his area:

http://www.eduardhiebert.com/ereform/better.htm

This strategy of conducting pre-election polls in order to help voters 
vote strategically could be very useful, especially in Canadian and 
other non-U.S. elections where there are three (or more) main parties.

Richard Fobes