<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Under either
of those interpretations of random approval there’s no incentive to approve of
any candidate except your favorite, to the degree that you can make your favorite
out.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But an alternative
interpretation - similar to your second but not quite the same - would be to
implement random approval as random ballot, and have voters add single-name
ballots for each candidate they approve of. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The more
candidates you approve, the fewer the chances any individual candidate you
approve of is picked, but the higher the chances some candidate from the set
you approve of is. And here’s the strategy: approve of all candidates for whom
this trade-off makes sense.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Of course,
this stops making sense once you allow rankings, at which point we are back to “I
can’t make these two out”.<span></span></span></p><div dir="auto"></div>
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