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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/20/2016 5:04 AM, Richard Lung
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<blockquote type="cite"><big><big>Strategic voting remains only a
residual problem with STV. But it can occur in real life
elections where a very popular candidate can take away most
of the first preferences of an allied candidate, subjecting
the ally to possible premature exclusion.</big></big></blockquote>
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But surely (in normal STV) the surpluses are distributed before
there are any exclusions, so wouldn't the surplus votes of the
"very popular" candidate save the "allied" candidate<br>
from exclusion?<br>
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Chris Benham<br>
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On 12/20/2016 5:04 AM, Richard Lung wrote:<br>
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<big><big>To all, <br>
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Statistical tests are judged for their accuracy by how far
they follow the scales of measurment (Sidney Siegal:
Non-parametric statistics for the behavioral sciences). The
four scales can also be applied to elections. (Later I found
out that elections are statistical tests, that is in the sense
that my innovation of Binomial STV is such). There is only one
election system that follows all four scales, and that is
transferable voting. Ranked choice or preference voting are
indeed essential to an accurate election system: that covers
the second scale: the ordinal scale. Proportional counting is
also essential: that covers the fourth scale: the ratio scale.<br>
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Strategic voting remains only a residual problem with STV. But
it can occur in real life elections where a very popular
candidate can take away most of the first preferences of an
allied candidate, subjecting the ally to possible premature
exclusion. Binomial STV solves that problem by making the
exclusion count rational, as well as the election count.<br>
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from<br>
Richard Lung.<br>
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