[EM] PR-STV and vote management

[James Gilmour]

> raphfrk at netscape.net > Sent: 20 April 2007 16:51
>  Under the standard rules,
> you are not making any claim about what candidates you want to get
> elected, you are just ranking them.

I don't know what "standard rules" you have in mind, but that does seem
to me to be a perverse interpretation of marking preferences in an
STV-PR election.  If there are 3 places to be filled and you have marked
preferences for 5 of the 9 candidates, you are surely saying that "the
candidates you want to get elected" are those three you have marked "1",
"2" and "3".  You may not achieve that (because not enough other voters
agree with you), but that is surely what you are claiming you want.
James Gilmour