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Re: [EM] STAR Voting

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Markus Schulze
Sat, Jul 10, 2021 3:00 PM

Hallo,

Daniel Carrera wrote (9 July 2021):

If you look at their website, they don't have
any unfair attacks against other methods.

Here are my complaints:

  1. The websites falsely claim that an election method
    is immune to spoilers if and only if it is guaranteed
    that adding a ballot and the reversed ballot always
    cancel each other out.

  2. The websites falsely claim that the legal definition
    for equal voting says that adding a ballot and the
    reversed ballot must always cancel each other out.

  3. The websites falsely claim that Arrow's Theorem
    and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem say that no
    preferential election method can guarantee that
    adding a ballot and the reversed ballot always
    cancel each other out.

Markus Schulze

Hallo, Daniel Carrera wrote (9 July 2021): > If you look at their website, they don't have > any unfair attacks against other methods. Here are my complaints: 1. The websites falsely claim that an election method is immune to spoilers if and only if it is guaranteed that adding a ballot and the reversed ballot always cancel each other out. 2. The websites falsely claim that the legal definition for equal voting says that adding a ballot and the reversed ballot must always cancel each other out. 3. The websites falsely claim that Arrow's Theorem and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem say that no preferential election method can guarantee that adding a ballot and the reversed ballot always cancel each other out. Markus Schulze