On Dec 29, 2007 1:17 PM, Dave Ketchum <<a href="mailto:davek@clarityconnect.com">davek@clarityconnect.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:53:56 -0800 CLAY SHENTRUP wrote:<br>>>Seems like Rob Brown gave us a start on moving ahead.<br>><br>> the best way to move ahead is to dump ordinal voting methods for
<br>> cardinal ones. approval voting is vastly simpler than all ranked<br>> methods.</div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Agreed that Approval is simple - but it is also too incapable of<br>indicating normal thoughts such as: A and B are better than X AND A is<br>preferred over B.<br></blockquote></div><br>Approval is simple only if you find it convenient to ignore such questions as "how should a voter vote to best
<br>pursue his interests?" If you happen to include such things in the equation, Approval mind-blowingly complex.<br>