RE: side comment about voting systems
There is Arrow's theorem (for which he got Nobel prize) and similar results.
Actually, if one allows not just a vote but numerical utility of different outcomes then a fair vote is possible, and strategic voting stops making sense, see, e.g.,
Hung T. Nguyen, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich,
"Decision Making Beyond Arrow's 'Impossibility Theorem', With the
Analysis of Effects of Collusion and Mutual Attraction",
International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2009, Vol. 24,
No. 1, pp. 27-47.
http://www.cs.utep.edu/vladik/2005/tr05-27a.pdf
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From: stds-1788@xxxxxxxx [mailto:stds-1788@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Corliss, George
However, I think I read a paper MANY years ago that gave a mathematical proof there is NO system of voting (subject to several "fairness" axioms) which is not subject to "strategic voting," in which you advance your position by voting in a manner contrary to your true wishes, under certain circumstances.
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