Re: Dec 15 voting amendment draft

[Clinton Mead <cryptor@zip.com.au>]

Regarding the Feburary 7th draft.

Are the results this draft produces equivalent to the results produced 
using this method?

(a) All voters tick an 'approved' box next to all options that would of 
been above the default option using the draft method.
(b) Any option which recieves a majority (or supermajority ) of approved 
ticks is 'approved'.
(c) Any option which is not approved is eliminated.
(d) If all options are eliminated, the default option wins, otherwise 
CSSD is performed on non-eliminated non-default options.

And if so, does the draft method have the same strategy problems as 
approval?

I suggest that it does, as it would not be difficult to construct a 
ballot where only one option is 'approved' ('approved' meaning not 
eliminated in step 3 of vote counting). These ballots are effectively 
approval ballots, as CSSD is not used or needed by the draft method, and 
hence have the same properties as approval ballots.

Clinton Mead.