<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 22:25 Closed Limelike Curves <<a href="mailto:closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com">closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Oh, definitely. Most of them will, probably. But probably not all; and if all of them do it, every cardinal system collapses back into approval, which is fine anyways.</div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:17 PM robert bristow-johnson <<a href="mailto:rbj@audioimagination.com" target="_blank">rbj@audioimagination.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">The question is about whether voters might be tempted to exaggerate the intensity of their preference (on a Score ballot), so as to have more effect in their vote.<br>
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> On 03/12/2024 1:14 AM EDT Closed Limelike Curves <<a href="mailto:closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com" target="_blank">closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I think that somewhere between 0% and 100% of voters would do this. Empirically, about 8% of US voters are honest and vote 3rd party, even if we assume nobody likes either major party candidate. With less extreme pressure, that number would probably be higher.<br>
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> On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:07 PM robert bristow-johnson <<a href="mailto:rbj@audioimagination.com" target="_blank">rbj@audioimagination.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > > On 03/11/2024 11:22 PM EDT Closed Limelike Curves <<a href="mailto:closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com" target="_blank">closed.limelike.curves@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > > I wonder if what we really want is to take pairwise differences in scores, then calculate the median difference for each pair of candidates. That might give you a system that behaves like Condorcet but still accounts for intensity of preferences. (Is that a thing?)<br>
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> > Do you actually think that in a competitive partisan political election where voters have a stake in the outcome, want to prevail politically, and vote by secret ballot that they would mark their ballots honestly about intensity of preference?<br>
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> > "My system is only intended for honest men." Jean-Charles de Borda<br>
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