Without the puzzle sentence all that get ranked get counted. Fine
with normal truncation, which is normal for ranking. If someone
ranks the bottom those count as least liked and rarely, if ever, cause
trouble.
With the sentence but no truncation, the bottom rank gets treated as
Bottom.
With the sentence and truncation it is easy to think of the lowest
actual rank as required to be treated as bottom.
Considering possible write-ins, do they make us see truncation?
I understand Chris is considering:
| I might change "ranking above at least one other candidate" to the
simpler (and more traditional) "ranking in any position".
Dave Ketchum
On Jun 19, 2010, at 3:33 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Dave,
If you bullet vote, then the candidate that you vote for is the only
one that you "ranked," so it is
considered ranked above all of the other candidates. Only the
truncated candidates are considered
unranked. Chris worded it this way so that if somebody ranked all
of the candidates without truncating
anybody, then the lowest ranked candidate would never be approved.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Ketchum
*Voters rank the candidates, beginning with those they most
prefer. Equal-ranking and truncation
are allowed.
Ranking above at least one other candidate is interpreted as
Approval.
So, if I bullet vote, my one ranked candidate is disapproved as
Bottom!!!
Leaves me still liking Condorcet, which is less into ranking
patterns
(only considers pairs of candidates from a ballot, comparing the
rankings within each pair).
Dave Ketchum
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