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

[Closed Limelike Curves]

Oh, definitely. Most of them will, probably. But probably not all; and if
all of them do it, every cardinal system collapses back into approval,
which is fine anyways.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:17 PM robert bristow-johnson <
rbj at audioimagination.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> > 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:
> > >
> > >
> > >  > On 03/11/2024 11:22 PM EDT Closed Limelike Curves <
> closed.limelike.curves at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  >
> > >  >
> > >  > 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?)
> > >  >
> > >
> > >  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?
> > >
> > >  "My system is only intended for honest men." Jean-Charles de Borda
> > >
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