Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcet voting
Oops: what I said here:
> there are no circumstances in which a rational (in the game
> theoretic sense of that term) Range Voting voter will cast an
> anti-veridical ballot.
is not true when there are N>3 candidates. There do exist
circumstances etc.
However, computer simulations seem to show that they are much less
harmful (less likely, and when they occur less likely to result in a
really poor candidate being elected) than analogous circumstances with
Condorcet.
--
Barak A. Pearlmutter
Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/
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