[Election-Methods] Improved Approval Runoff

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 09:44 PM 8/19/2007, Kevin Venzke wrote:
>I would guess that if you searched the EM archives you would find
>literally dozens of proposed methods that combine approval with a pairwise
>measure.

And method which allows equal ranking and truncation is "Condorcet/Approval."

The term "Approval" is somewhat misleading for the method, because a 
vote does not necessarily represent any absolute "Approval" of the 
candidates, and some people have a reaction to the method based on an 
idea that it does.

It's a vote, pure and simple. "Approval" is a method which allows 
overvoting, or equal rating. Basic Approval is just Plurality with 
that tweak. (Which is actually removing an old errooneous assumption, 
the idea that an overvote is necessarily an error on the part of an 
error. Why is it an error? Because the rules will discard the ballot. 
Why will they discard the ballot? Because it is an error. Oops! A 
very old Catch-22.)