<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 11:52 robert bristow-johnson <<a href="mailto:rbj@audioimagination.com">rbj@audioimagination.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 6:14 PM Michael Ossipoff <<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com" target="_blank">email9648742@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Anyone who votes other than all-or-nothing in a public political election is using poor strategy.<br>
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But requiring voters to use **any** strategy at all is IMO just undesirable. </blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Wouldn’t it be nice to have a ranked-method do it all for you !!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I listed a lot of important unique Approval advantages that are lost by the complicated automatic-machines that are called “ranked-methods”. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Compared to those important advantages, the matter of voters’ qualification to use Approval well are the least of our concerns.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Even the best ranked-method won’t help if it doesn’t get enacted because it doesn’t have Approval’s simplicity, absolute minimalness, unique unarbitrariness, & completely cost-free implementation.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">…or if its results are easily falsified by count-fraud that’s difficult to detect due to an elaborate complex count.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" dir="auto"><br>
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> On 03/16/2024 2:27 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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> And if voters want to do their part to elect the best candidate, instead of playing strategic games, we should let them! We want honest voting to be as easy as possible, because honest voting is a public good. Filling in a bubble labeled 5/5 is no harder than filling one labeled 1/1. But in real life I don't carry dice around very often.<br>
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I'm really with Limelike here. Except I think filling in a Score bubble *does* require more thought than ranking even if the voter ends up bullet voting.<br>
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BTW, I posted at r/EndFPTP a derived scenario that shows how STAR fails to disincentivize tactical voting, even with the head-to-head runoff. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1bbq6hu/heres_a_good_hypothetical_for_how_star_fails/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1bbq6hu/heres_a_good_hypothetical_for_how_star_fails/</a> <br>
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We don't wanna burden voters with any pressure to vote tactically, do we? Why are people (<a href="http://equal.vote" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">equal.vote</a>, CES) promoting methods that, whenever there are 3 or more candidates, **inherently** forces voters to make tactical consideration of how they're going to vote for their 2nd-favorite candidate?<br>
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RCV can screw up. And because of Condorcet cycles, even Condorcet RCV will have those very few elections where it cannot prevent a spoiled election (and the bad things that come along with spoiled election) because of a cycle. But, if we're gonna evaluate all of our votes equally, the ranked ballot asks exactly the right questions whereas the Score ballot requires more information from voters than should be demanded of them (or the Approval ballot requires too little information, but there is *still* tactical considerations required). But with RCV, we **know** what to do with our 2nd-favorite candidate: rank them #2.<br>
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