<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:31 AM Toby Pereira wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-3838311373265387169gmail-m_6284552323093947054yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Personally, the measure that makes most sense to me is to maximise utility. But this doesn't automatically mean score voting (where a score could simply be seen as a utility rating of a candidate), at least in part because strategies that voters adopt might reduce its effectiveness.<br>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep, maximizing utility is the correct answer (= finding the candidate that best represents the entire electorate), and the best way to get that kind of information is with rated ballots.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://leastevil.blogspot.com/2012/03/tyranny-of-majority-weak-preferences.html" target="_blank">http://leastevil.blogspot.com/2012/03/tyranny-of-majority-weak-preferences.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Condorcet ranked systems will also typically elect the Utilitarian Winner, but only because real-world voting behavior typically follows a spatial model with unimodal distribution.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304406815000518" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304406815000518</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.504.3181&rep=rep1&type=pdf" target="_blank">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.504.3181&rep=rep1&type=pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Voter strategy on rated ballots is way overblown.<br></div><div><br></div><div>1. It doesn't happen much in real elections.<br></div><div>2. Even with strategic voters, rated systems still tend to produce more representative outcomes than other systems.<br></div><div>3. There are many voting methods based on rated ballots besides pure Score Voting, which have extra features to discourage strategic exaggeration. STAR, 321, MJ, IRNR, etc. Maligning pure Score, as if it's the only way to tally rated ballots, is a bit of a strawman argument.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>