On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Dermot Cochran <[email protected]> wrote: > It would seem intuitive that candidates with preferences are deemed > approved, and that candidates without any preference assigned are > non-approved. For example of there are 10 candidates and I rank only nine, > rather than giving a tenth preference for my least favorite candidate, that > that would imply non-approval.
Well, the strongest vote in a PR-STV election is one where you rank all (bar one of ) the candidates, so that rule would force people who only want to approve 1 candidate to cast a weak ranked vote. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
