[EM] equal rankings IRV

James Gilmour jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk
Sun Jun 13 09:24:01 PDT 2004


James Green-Armytage wrote:
> 	Once again, in the whole votes version, if I equally 
> rank A B and C (in first place, for example), my vote will 
> count as a whole vote for each of those candidates in the 
> first round.

So if you do this but I do not, you get three votes while I get only one?

> In the fractional votes version, my vote will 
> count as 1/3 of a vote for each of them at first, then when 
> one is eliminated, 1/2 for the remaining two, and later as a 
> single whole vote for whoever lasts the longest.

Now everyone has only one vote.

James Gilmour




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