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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Toby Pereira <tdp201b@yahoo.co.uk><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> EM <election-methods@lists.electorama.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sun, 24 July, 2011 19:45:06<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [EM] PR for USA or UK<BR></FONT><BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">>I don't necessarily think sophisticated voters are required in order to ensure reasonable PR under PRV. I think as long as you don't get some candidates who >have much better strategic voters than others, it should do OK.</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>>You should read some of Schulze's papers about the history of free riding. It seems clear from those examples that there are examples of parties with better or >worse free-riding vote-management capabilities. So I would worry about this distorting results.</DIV>
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<DIV>OK, I might look into it. But you could probably legislate against blatant suggestions to vote in a specific way from certain parties. It would still exit "unofficially" with discussions online and elsewhere but anyone would have access to the information. I'm sure Warren's got an answer too. ;)</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>