[EM] Need IRV examples; voting show

[Olli Salmi]

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


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