[EM] Score Voting and Approval Voting not practically substantially different from Plurality?

Juho Laatu juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jun 26 03:52:48 PDT 2013


On 26.6.2013, at 13.31, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:

> On 06/26/2013 11:24 AM, Juho Laatu wrote:
>> 
>> On 25.6.2013, at 18.07, Benjamin Grant wrote:
> 
>>> Now there are some criteria that aren't important to me at all, that I
>>> do not value what the try to protect - and those I factor out.
> 
>> I think I don't have any criteria that I'd absolutely require.
> 
> How about unanimity? :-)

Ok, that comes close. However, an otherwise excellent method with 1/1000000 random probability of not meeting unaminity, giving victory to some almost equally good candidate, would maybe be a stupid method, but still maybe acceptable. I.e. I could accept it if other alternatives are worse. :-)

Juho






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