[EM] Anti-defection strategy device for IBIFA

[Michael Ossipoff]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Michael Ossipoff <email9648742 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Couldn't that conditonal-option be available for each stage/round of
> Bucklin, so that that vote at that stage would be given only if the
> vote-receiver's vote-total, at that stage, exceeds that of the vote-gving
> voter's designated favorite?
>

I refer to the vote-receiver's vote total just before that round's votes
are given.

Michael Ossipoff

>
> Maybe a voter could be allowed to designate more than one favorite, but
> that designation should never bestow any benefit in the count, other than
> the determination of whether a conditional vote should be given.
> ...because, if it did, then there would start to be strategic need to
> insincerely give favoriteness to a compromise or a candidate of a
> distrusted faction.
>
> ...But if a voter could designate more than one favorite, that would
> complicate the determination of whether a conditional vote should be given.
> So maybe a voter should only be allowed to designate one favorite.
>
> That conditional option gets rid of the chicken-dilemma problem in Bucklin
> and Approval, getting rid of their worst problem.
>
> (Well I call the chicken-dilemma a nuisance instead of a problem, but then
> let's say it's Approval's & Bucklin's big potential nuisance.)
>
> Michael Ossipoff
>
> .
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