[EM] PR-STV with approval based elimination

[Dave Ketchum]

I have trouble finding value in the specific label "non-approved".   
All that I do not rank share being liked less than any others - as do  
those I assign lower ranks than others I indicate liking better.

DWK

On May 5, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Raph Frank wrote:

> 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.