[EM] Some myths about voting methods

[Juho Laatu]

Yes, and ties may be allowed in
rank-order votes.

Warren Smith also assumed rank-order
ballots to be transitive. That is
not necessary. If we allow any kind
of votes then there are many more
possible rank-order votes. Most of
them are not typically needed but
the same applies to many of the
Approval vote alternatives.

Juho


--- On Fri, 5/6/09, Jonathan Lundell <jlundell at pobox.com> wrote:

> From: Jonathan Lundell <jlundell at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: [EM] Some myths about voting methods
> To: "Warren Smith" <warren.wds at gmail.com>
> Cc: election-methods at lists.electorama.com
> Date: Friday, 5 June, 2009, 11:15 PM
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Warren
> Smith wrote:
> 
> > In a 3-candidate election, there are 6=3! possible
> rank-order votes.
> 
> Only if truncation is forbidden.
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