[EM] Election-Methods Digest, Vol 236, Issue 18

[Closed Limelike Curves]

I think that somewhere between 0% and 100% of voters would do this.
Empirically, about 8% of US voters are honest and vote 3rd party, even if
we assume nobody likes either major party candidate. With less extreme
pressure, that number would probably be higher.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:07 PM robert bristow-johnson <
rbj at audioimagination.com> wrote:

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> > On 03/11/2024 11:22 PM EDT Closed Limelike Curves <
> closed.limelike.curves at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I wonder if what we really want is to take pairwise differences in
> scores, then calculate the median difference for each pair of candidates.
> That might give you a system that behaves like Condorcet but still accounts
> for intensity of preferences. (Is that a thing?)
> >
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> Do you actually think that in a competitive partisan political election
> where voters have a stake in the outcome, want to prevail politically, and
> vote by secret ballot that they would mark their ballots honestly about
> intensity of preference?
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> "My system is only intended for honest men." Jean-Charles de Borda
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