At 20:10 +0200 7.12.2002, James Gilmour wrote: >There may be some problem with the rules you've seen for counting IRV >ballots, but >in the rules I've used for many years, it is just impossible for any voter >to have >his or her vote counted for several candidates and so secure more than one >vote. >With IRV, the voter has one vote. That vote is transferable, but the whole of >that one vote counts towards the election of only one candidate. If the >voter's >most preferred candidate ceases to be a candidate, because he or she is >excluded, >then the one vote is transferred to one other candidate and counts exclusively >towards the election of that one candidate. I think this demonstrates "one >person, one vote" throughout the entire process.
Do you mean to say that in Approval a vote counts towards the election of several candidates? Do I have more power if I approve of several candidates? Do I have most power if I approve all of them? Olli Salmi ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
