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

[Michael Ossipoff]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 22:25 Closed Limelike Curves <
closed.limelike.curves at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Yes.


> 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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>> > >  r b-j . _ . _ . _ . _ rbj at audioimagination.com
>> > >
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>> > >
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