<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On 9.1.2014, at 23.49, Michael Ossipoff <<a href="mailto:email9648742@gmail.com">email9648742@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Juho Laatu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juho4880@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">juho4880@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; position: static; z-index: auto;" class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Many methods consider unranked candidates to be effectively ranked below all the ranked candidates. </div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Certainly, and all of my definitions of voting X over Y would agree.</div>
<div> </div><div>(...unless it's a definition-version that is with respect to the method in which takes place the particular voting being discussed, and that is a method that doesn't have that interpretation.)</div>
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<div><div>Therefore ranking A last on the ballot (when there are also unranked candidates) seems to me to violate your condition "B voters refuse to vote A over anyone".</div><div> </div><div> </div></div></div>
</blockquote><div> </div><div>Wait a minute. If you ran A last, an there are unranked candidates, then my method nonspecific definitions would say that you're voting A over someone.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think we agree. I was referring to "ranking A last on the ballot". Then typically (in most election methods) the voter is considered to "vote A over" the unranked candiates.</div><div><br></div><div>Juho</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>