[Election-Methods] leaving seats open

2007-10-09 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 07:04 PM 10/8/2007, Jonathan Lundell wrote: Are we saying that a bullet vote for Abraham Lincoln is insincere? Why? The voter has essentially set an approval cutoff between Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler. In this case, that isn't

Re: [Election-Methods] leaving seats open

2007-10-09 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:22 PM 10/9/2007, Jonathan Lundell wrote: As a side note on this discussion, the Green Party of California (as well as GPUS, which adopted similar rules) uses an STV variation that allows for leaving seats empty. We use BC-like STV with an additional rule that, to be deemed elected, a