[EM] Strategy-free criterion

Kevin Venzke stepjak at yahoo.fr
Fri Jun 21 06:16:49 PDT 2024


Hi CLC,

>> The outcomes of our election methods can (almost as a rule) be dictated by a
>> coordinated majority (or a group of more numerous voters) so I expect a "zero-info
>> honesty" method to have some kind of inherent tether to this reality, as though the
>> coordination is done for the voters already, behind the scenes.
> 
> Well, the two examples of proven zero-information honesty I know about are quadratic
> voting and Borda count. I'm not actually aware of any proofs for the Condorcet
> cases, but I suspect  most Condorcet methods work here.

In some cases proofs seem a little trivial. Why wouldn't IRV have zero-info honesty
for example?

Kevin
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