<div dir="ltr"><div>With the definitions that I've been suggesting, of voting X over Y, I've been trying for definitions by which someone can be said to vote X over Y, without reference to a particular voting system (balloting and count). That's why I proposed adding the clause "...when using any voting system (whose balloting allows the vote that the voter is making) that is actually used in some country's official public political elections." </div>
<div> </div><div>If that wouldn't cover some methods, ones that use balloting unlike any actual official public political elections, then we could leave out the word "political". If necessary.</div><div> </div>
<div>But of course it would be neater and cleaner to define "voting X over Y in the particular (specified) voting system to which the definiition is currently being appled."</div><div> </div><div>I'm not saying that a specified voting system would be part of the definition of voting X over Y. I'm saying that the definition would be about voting X over Y in whatever voting system you want to apply the definition to, the voting system in which takes place the specific voting of which we're speaking..</div>
<div> </div><div>So, instead of just a definition of voting X over Y, it would be a definition of voting X over Y in whatever voting system the definition is currently being applied to.</div><div> </div><div>Then the definition could be used when discussing any voting system, even one whose balloting isn't used anywhere.</div>
<div> </div><div>Michael Ossipoff</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div>