[EM] Power truncation

Kevin Venzke stepjak at yahoo.fr
Sun Jun 19 16:53:04 PDT 2005


Chris,

--- Chris Benham <chrisbenham at bigpond.com> a écrit :
> > Power Truncation: If the voter chooses the power truncation option, 
> > then any candidate whom s/he doesn't rank will be scored as if that 
> > voter has ranked every one of the other voters over that candidate. In 
> > other words, that voter is opting to increase the greatest 
> > votes-against of every candidate whom s/he doesn't rank. [end of power 
> > truncation definition] 
> 
> 49 A
> 24 B
> 27 C>B
> 
> According to my interpretation, the only effect of  PT here is to raise 
> C's score from  49 to 73, only changing the result from a BC tie to B 
> winning decisively.

It seems to me that, according to your interpretation, there is no difference
between voting C>B and C=B.

Kevin Venzke



	

	
		
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