On 6 Jun 2005 at 21:20 UTC-0700, Abd ulRahman Lomax wrote: > Approval Voting amounts to nothing more than striking out the rule that > spoils multiply-marked ballots. As has often been noted, it doesn't require > any voting machine changes (except if machines automatically reject > multiply-marked ballots, and since the machines have to be able to > accomodate multiple-seat elections, they must be programmable not to do this). > > What if we had IRV with Approval? What is that called?
ERIRV(whole): Equal-Rank [allowed], Instant Runoff Voting, whole [votes counted for equal rank]. In other words, each round of the runoff becomes an approval election rather than a single-vote-transfer election. -- araucaria dot araucana at gmail dot com http://www.metafilter.com/user/23101 http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/User:Araucaria Q = Qoph = "monkey/knot" -- see http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/alphabet.html ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
