<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Hi Robert,</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I would +1 to Bryan Mills' post.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">>in the two-candidate case, you would have to assume unequal treatment for voters</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Yes, utility inherently does this. It's trying to maximize "happiness" which is a different ideal from giving</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">everyone equal weight (e.g. even people who don't have a strong opinion).</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">>but when Clay says that Score or Approval is better at picking the Condorcet winner than is a </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">>Condorcet-compliant method, *that* is no tautology is obviously controversial, since it says that there is </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">>a number closer to 3 than the number 3 itself.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">What Clay means is that score/Approval are better at picking the *sincere* Condorcet winner. Yes, that's</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">obviously controversial. It could be true if it so happens that nobody wants to vote truthfully under</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Condorcet methods, while Approval in practice never has an<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>y bad outcomes, etc.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">>if it isn't 0 (for when you don't get who you voted for) and 1 (for when your candidate is elected), then </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">>some voter is diluting their utilities and i think it's pretty useless and in bad taste to ask voters to do that </SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">>explicitly with a Score ballot.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">"Utilities" refers to what voters actually "feel," not what they are putting on the ballot.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Kevin</SPAN></div>
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