[EM] Fwd: Is it professional?

[Benjamin Grant]

So if I understand you:

You have a single election. You permit people to rank up to 3 candidates,
no more.  You eliminate form consideration all but the top 3 people who
were ranked, regardless of what rank they got. Then, with only those three
left, you proceed to process them with standard IRV to find the winner.

Is that a correct summation of you system, do I understand it right?


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:19 AM, David L Wetzell <wetzelld at gmail.com>wrote:

> To: Benjamin Grant <benn at 4efix.com>
>
>
> Most IRV in real world limits the rankings to 3 candidates per voter.
> In my approach, I treat the rankings as approval votes in the first round
> and tally up the number of times each candidate gets "ranked" to determine
> 3 finalists.There are 10 ways to rank 3 finalists so I sort the votes into
> these 10 categories, tally them up and use the info to have an instant
> runoff vote among the 3 finalists.
>
> Ben, this is the approach that I said gave the same result for all of the
> cases you brought up in your initial email to the list, which illustrated
> why you thought IRV was flawed.
> dlw
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