05/18/02 - Rank Your Lowest Poll Favorite as Number One: Mike, you wrote about IRV: "...it eliminates your favorite before it lets you help a lower choice."
If your favorite is lower in the polls then you can expect that it will be eliminated before your second choice. What you should do is rank number one whichever of your two candidates is the lowest in the polls. If your favorite is the lowest, you rank him first. In that way you may help your favorite to also avoid the elimination that your lower choice is going to already avoid because he has a higher poll rating. But, the big question needs to be put to you: `Just how many candidates do you expect to elect with your one vote in a single-seat election, or for that matter, in a multi-seat election like STV?' Regards, Donald Davison, host of New Democracy at http://www.mich.com/~donald Candidate Election Methods +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ | Q U O T A T I O N | | "Democracy is a beautiful thing, | | except that part about letting just any old yokel vote." | | - Age 10 - | +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ APV Approval Voting ATV Alternative Vote aka IRV Instant Runoff Voting aka IRVing FPTP First Past The Post aka Plurality NOTA None of the Above aka RON Re-Open Nominations STV Single Transferable Vote aka Choice Voting aka Hare-Clark aka Preference Voting aka Hare Preferential Voting Please be advised that sending email to me allows me to quote from it and/or forward the entire email to others. ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
