[EM] “Monotonic” Binomial STV

[Richard Lung]

Hello Kevin,

My method does allow voters to abstain. In fact it's an essential part 
of it, for the relative importance of election and exclusion counts. So, 
all the preferences are counted, in a complete dimension of choice.

For an e-lection or choosing out, I don't have equal preferences or 
choosing-in.

Regards,

Richard Lung.


On 28/02/2022 01:23, Kevin Venzke wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
>>    hello again Kevin,
>>   
>> I consider equal preferences to be "illections" defined by the
>> multi-nomial theorem, rather than "elections"; maybe a suitable task for
>> future generations, but not this old man.
>>   
>>    "Truncation" I seem to recall has something to do with iteration
>> methods, not my subject.
> Truncation is when the voter doesn't rank all the candidates. They list some
> preferred choice(s) and then stop. It seemed likely that your method doesn't allow
> voters to do that, so I had to prohibit it for all methods in order to make a plot.
>
> Equal ranking is e.g. when the voter has more than one favorite with no ordering
> between them. It can be useful to support this because, if done right, it may be
> possible to guarantee to the voter that they can safely rank their favorite
> candidate no lower than tied for first.
>
> Equal ranking wasn't allowed for my plot, either.
>
> Kevin