<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">I think this is the best phrasing I've come up with so far for PAR. I think it's not exactly equivalent to the definitions I've given before, but it is close enough to meet all the same properties and give the same result in any basic scenario type.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Prefer Accept Reject (PAR) voting works as follows:</p><ol style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>Voters can Prefer, Accept, or Reject each candidate.</b> Blanks count as "Reject" if no rival is explicitly rejected; otherwise, blank is "Accept".</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>Candidates with at least 25% Prefer, and no more than 50% reject, are "viable"</b>. The most-preferred viable candidate (if any) is the leader.</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Each "prefer" is worth 1 point. For viable candidates, each "accept" on a ballot which doesn't prefer the leader is also worth 1 point. <b>Most points wins.</b></li></ol></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-11-12 13:47 GMT-05:00 Jameson Quinn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jameson.quinn@gmail.com" target="_blank">jameson.quinn@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thinking about PAR and the electoral college, I realized that there is a different way to state the PAR rules:<div><br></div><div><ol style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>Voters can Prefer, Accept, or Reject each candidate.</b> Default is "Reject" for voters who do not explicitly reject any candidates, and "Accept" otherwise.</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">A candidate is "viable" if they are rejected by under 50%.</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Each ballot gives 1 point to each candidate it prefers. Ballots which prefer no viable candidates also give 1 point to each candidate they accept, so long as that candidate is preferred by at least 25%.</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Now find the viable candidate with the most points, if any, and redo step 3 from scratch as if only that candidate were viable.</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">The winner is the candidate with the most points.<br></li></ol><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">This could potentially differ from PAR in that it waits slightly longer to "reveal" the preferences of candidates with under 25% preferences. In practice, I doubt this would typically make any difference.</span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">The procedure above is more complicated than PAR's, but the advantage is that it produces counts which include the disqualified candidates, and thus is suitable for combining with totals from non-PAR systems such as approval, plurality, or "pre-elimination totals" from IRV. </span></font></div></div>
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