<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">But if you're right about the results of its clone dependence, isn't<br>STAR just Range with cowbell? That is, it would reduce to Range itself<br>due to the existence of rated (rated-equal) clones.<br></blockquote><div>Yesish—although, with STAR, I think of "clones" as rated-next-to-equal. Clones in the sense of rated-equal-on-all-ballots don't really exist, so any "clones" would probably be copartisans. (Which is why the runoff probably makes elections a bit more Condorcet-efficient). In practice, that's a huge improvement on IRV and FPP for Condorcet advocates (since Score has a high Condorcet efficiency).</div><div><br></div><div>To be honest, every well-designed voting rule—anything that doesn't make strategy too complicated or require order-reversal—will probably converge to a rough approximation of a maximal lottery (since that's the group-strategyproof Nash equilibrium).</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 8:32 AM Kristofer Munsterhjelm <<a href="mailto:km_elmet@t-online.de" target="_blank">km_elmet@t-online.de</a>> 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">On 2024-04-08 07:26, Closed Limelike Curves wrote:<br>
>> That's it. One-person-one-vote leads to Majority rule which leads<br>
>> to some Condorcet-consistent method. I believe that this principle<br>
>> takes primacy over any other for deciding single-winner elections<br>
>> when there is no proportionality to be had. For multi-winner<br>
>> elections I might be for an STV method.<br>
> <br>
> Then STAR should be great, since it has sky-high Condorcet efficiency. <br>
> It's easily more Condorcet-efficient than approval (because of the extra <br>
> runoff, which can elect a Condorcet winner in second place), and <br>
> approval already tends to pick Condorcet winners in practice.<br>
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But if you're right about the results of its clone dependence, isn't <br>
STAR just Range with cowbell? That is, it would reduce to Range itself <br>
due to the existence of rated (rated-equal) clones.<br>
<br>
-km<br>
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