On Dec 28, 2007 2:46 PM, J. Andrew Rogers <<a href="mailto:andrew@ceruleansystems.com">andrew@ceruleansystems.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">I was not trying to imply that Range voting is inferior, only that it<br></div>is not "ideal" in the sense that it will always reflect the<br>preferences of the voter pool under all conditions.
</blockquote><div><br>Okay, but that's a ridiculous standard. Here's a better one: a voting system is "ideal" if there are no circumstances under which it does not reflect the preferences of the voter pool, but another system does, and "optimal" if reflects the preferences of the voter pool with higher probability than any other system. Do you believe that it is not ideal or optimal in the above sense? I ask because range voting advocates believe that there is compelling experimental evidence that range voting is optimal, and in fact very nearly ideal.
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