[EM] A standard count for election and exclusion,,

[Richard Lung]

On 14/10/2022 11:16, Richard Lung wrote:
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> A standard count for election and exclusion
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> Election implies a first choice, and exclusion implies a last choice. 
> It is also established that intermediate choices exist, even tho most 
> of the worlds electoral systems don’t formally recognise a range of 
> choice, sometimes called preference or ranked choice. (Preferential 
> suffrage of the vote, in turn, implies a proportional suffrage of the 
> count, necesary to elect a range of choices, or preferences, from a 
> sufficiently good choice of candidates, in multi-member constituencies).
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> Middle choices are recognised, by convention and in academe, with 
> regard to the worlds two main blocs of voting systems, simple 
> plurality and party list.
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> The so-called wasted vote, used in main party electioneering 
> propaganda, at least since the Second World War, is an arm twister on 
> the voters, to forego a first choice, for a middle choice, in order to 
> defeat a last choice.
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> Strategic voting or tactical voting, to use its British name, has the 
> same objective, as a willing renunciation, by the voters, rather than 
> succumbing to main party blackmail.
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> Both party list voting and simple plurality elections are limited by 
> the one-choice X vote, and so both are prone to strategic voting. Peer 
> reviewed academics, such as Anika Freden, have identified four main 
> types of strategic voting with party lists systems and their hybrids.
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> All this goes to show that election and exclusion form part of a 
> continuum of choice, from first to last choice, with a usually tacit 
> middle choice.
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> Representation of the voters is generally accomplished by a positive 
> election procedure and a negative exclusion procedure. Logically, this 
> procedure should be the same for both election and exclusion, because 
> they are part of the same continuum or scale of choice.
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> The system of “Binomial STV” accomplishes this logically required 
> symmetry of election count and exclusion count, to a rational standard.
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> Regards,
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> Richard Lung.
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