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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>During the last days the discussion on
this list has focused primarily on the terminology. Coincidently I am working on
a paper that tries to define "preferential voting". </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Literature offers numerous understandings and
definitions:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- 'preferential voting' is often used as a synonim
for Alternative Vote or IRV</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- 'preferential voting' is sometimes used as
another name for STV</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- 'preferential voting' is often used to
denote 'ranking methods' (thus including STV, AV, Borda, etc.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- 'preferential voting is often used to denote a
preference for a single candidate within List PR (this definition is used mainly
in Europe)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- mathematicians put first-past-the-post in the
group of preferential voting schemes, but approval voting is not a member of
this group</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- some authors put US primaries under 'preferential
voting' (Katz, for instance)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is it possible to define preferential voting at
all?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd be grateful for any comments.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>jure</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>