[EM] Forest: ER Bucklin vs ATDT (Michael Ossipoff)

[Forest Simmons]

In XA (aka ATDT) you should vote your Top set at Top, and your Bottom set
Bottom.  But there is less incentive to vote the remaining candidates near
the extremes as compared to MJ/Bucklin.

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> Forest--
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> You mathematicians are more versatile than most of us, and can perceive
> things that for many, are way too confusing. The mathematicians'
> descriptions & discussions of XA are confusing for me, which is why I just
> call that method "Approve To Desired Total" (ATDT).
>
> The version of ER Bucklin that is now my favorite, with equal-ranking
> anywhere allowed, and with skipping allowed, and without that automatic
> skipping that I used to suggest (for preserving MMC) is, of course
> equivalent to MJ.
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> You said that ATDT is better than ER Bucklin/MJ because, with an electorate
> polarized about a candidate, ER Bucklin tends to put that candidate at top
> or bottom, rather than at a more middle place that better reflects hir
> average likedness.
>
> But I _want_ to send the good candidates to top, and the bad candidates to
> bottom.
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> So how is ATDT better than ER Bucklin, as regards voting strategy?
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> Michael Ossipoff
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