robert bristow-johnson wrote:
On Jan 16, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Kathy Dopp wrote:
Exactly as I tried to point out to you, you were either disallowing
voters to rank only two candidates or to rank all three.
no, it has nothing at all to do with allowing or disallowing the voters to
I see I was
correct and you are disallowing voters to rank only two candidates and
have, as Abd ul also pointed out to you, left 3 choose 2 or 6 possible
choices out of your list.
because all unmarked candidates are tied for last place, when there is
only one unmarked candidate, there is *no* consequential difference
between leaving that candidate unmarked or marking that candidate last.
Is that true in IRV? Consider a vote of the sort:
A > B
where A and B are eliminated. Then this would be an empty vote, I think,
and so be removed from the count, whereas if it had been
A > B > C
it would count as one point for C.
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