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Warren Smith wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Warren Schudy in a July 2007 draft paper:
"Range voting is a generalisation of approval voting where you can give
each candidate any score
between 0 and 1. Optimal strategies never vote anything other than 0 or
1, so range voting
complicates ballots and confuses voters for little or no gain."
Ossipoff: Warren Schude's statement was correct
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--CORRECTION: optimal strategies can vote other than 0 and 1, and
voting 0 or 1 can be suboptimal.
Examples include
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rangevoting.org/RVstrat1.html">http://rangevoting.org/RVstrat1.html</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rangevoting.org/PuzzlePage.html#prob19">http://rangevoting.org/PuzzlePage.html#prob19</a>
Also, just in the following incredibly trivial total knowledge example
TOTAL FROM OTHER VOTERS: A=85.4 B=85.5
YOUR VOTE: A=? B=?
the vote A=1 B=0 is equally as optimal as A=0.9 B=0.1.
This also falsifies the statement "Optimal strategies never vote anything other than 0 or 1".
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I don't have a "password", so I can't access the given puzzle
solution. Warren Schudy's "never" I suppose meant "never in a remotely<br>
plausible public political election scenario". I knew there was the
odd exception in elections with very few voters and/or the voter has<br>
much more precise information than s/he could ever plausibly have in a
public election.<br>
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Regarding "social utility", I'm of the school that says that to the
extent that it is a real and wonderful thing it will look after itself
if we do<br>
our best to ensure that the election method is as fair and
strategy-resistant as possible. <br>
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Chris Benham<br>
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