[EM] PR-STV with approval based elimination

[Raph Frank]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Dermot Cochran <Dermot.Cochran at ucd.ie> wrote:
> It would seem intuitive that candidates with preferences are deemed
> approved, and that candidates without any preference assigned are
> non-approved.  For example of there are 10 candidates and I rank only nine,
> rather than giving a tenth preference for my least favorite candidate, that
> that would imply non-approval.

Well, the strongest vote in a PR-STV election is one where you rank
all (bar one of ) the candidates, so that rule would force people who
only want to approve 1 candidate to cast a weak ranked vote.