On Dec 30, 2007 10:49 PM, Paul Kislanko <<a href="mailto:jpkislanko@bellsouth.net">jpkislanko@bellsouth.net</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><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I still think there'd be a problem with folks who spent a
few months doing their civic duty by learning what the candidates said and
thinking about issues coming up with a ballot and going away being
out-strategized by a concerted effort on the part of voting junkies who are more
interested in getting their party in power than they are about any issue related
to the public interest.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Well, I agree that that is the problem we are trying to solve. I don't know if my little scenario solves it or not, I tend to think it would come close, assuming everyone had equal amount of time on their hands to monitor the results and tweak their vote (I kind of doubt it would take a lot of time to have near-equal strategic weight).
<br><br>Obviously, I prefer automating the process, which to me is exactly what condorcet does.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Not only do I think this "perfect knowledge" paradigm
results in an equilibrium, I beleve at the closing of the voting (shutdown of
the server) there'd be enough information available to create ranked ballots for
each voter and to count them however one wished.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I don't know about the ranked ballots, since in many elections it might reach an equilibrium very quickly.
<br><br>In others, there may be multiple equilibria. Whether it bounces around between them or not I don't know...it may well be that once it reaches the first one, it will stay there. And different elections, with the same people and the same preferences, may find a different equilibrium, depending on the timing and other such "random" things.
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