[EM] Easy fix to Alaska's ranked-choice voting

[James Gilmour]

I cannot comment on all implementations, but I do know that when STV-PR (RCV) was introduced for City council elections in Minneapolis a few years ago, voters were restricted to marking only three preferences because the tally machines used in the precincts for the precinct counts could tally only three columns.

James Gilmour
Edinburgh, Scotland

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> From: Election-Methods [mailto:election-methods-
> bounces at lists.electorama.com] On Behalf Of Colin Champion
> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2022 2:26 AM
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> Subject: Re: [EM] Easy fix to Alaska's ranked-choice voting
> 
> On 11/11/2022 20:49, Forest Simmons wrote:
> >
> > Since almost all RCV implementations limit the number of candidates
> > that can be ranked on a ballot, the simplest decent  RCV method is ...
> > Elect the uncovered candidate that is unranked on the fewest ballot
> >
> Does anyone know why this truncation is imposed? If it's to limit the amount
> of work needed to count the ballots, wouldn't t it make sense for Condorcet
> supporters to advocate a method which was countable in linear time? In
> practice this would presumably be Sequential Pairwise Elimination with an
> FPTP pre-ranking. If you insist on a quadratic time method and accept the
> corollary of ballot truncation, I don t imagine it will work very well. Or am I
> missing something?
> 
> CJC
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