[EM] Defeat Strength

[robert bristow-johnson]

> On 09/09/2022 11:34 AM EDT Forest Simmons <forest.simmons21 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> As I understand it, the custom of treating truncation/abstention the same as equal last rank is a practical expedient to ward off dark horse upsets.
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But it's also just equivalent to the meaning of the ballot in a Hare RCV (or "IRV") election.  Any unranked candidate is treated exactly as if they were ranked at the bottom level in the single transferable vote model.  I would not like to see that meaning changed with an RCV election decided with different rules.  In other words, I would not want to see the meaning of an unranked candidate to be changed so that somehow the unranked candidate is seen as preferred over any ranked candidate.

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