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

[robert bristow-johnson]

The question is about whether voters might be tempted to exaggerate the intensity of their preference (on a Score ballot), so as to have more effect in their vote.

> On 03/12/2024 1:14 AM EDT Closed Limelike Curves <closed.limelike.curves at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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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