My current policy is to count PRESENT as a whole vote. Endorse can't
be a whole vote bc people keep saying things like "vote CB, else
endorse G". My current policy is to count that vote as a list of {CB,
all of G's votes in order except for the vote for CB, which is first}
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote:
>> I have no idea how to handle PRESENT in runoff voting. Is it a replacement
>> for the whole list, or is it an option on the list? If it's the first option
>> on a ranked voting, is PRESENT "eliminated" if it doesn't win, so my vote
>> doesn't
>> end up counting towards quorum? And what happens if PRESENT is the majority?
>> is everyone else eliminated? I'm not sure if the "standard definition of
>> instant
>> runoff" covers this. So let's test that in some slightly-less essential
>> offices.
>> Fun!!
>
> This question is also a concern for endorsements.
>
> Take the following results votes for voters P...Z for candidates A..G, then my
> vote:
>
> P: {A, B, C}
> Q: {A, B, C}
> R: {A, B, C}
>
> S: {D, E, F}
> T: {D, E, F}
> U: {D, E, F}
>
> Z: {G, A}
>
> Me: {endorse Z, D}
>
> From first-choices, we have A=3, D=3, G=2 (1 certain G, 1 endorsement).
>
> G is eliminated.
>
> So if we eliminate my first conditional choice, "endorse Z", then the second
> vote on my list is for D, D wins.
>
> But if we keep my "endorse Z" vote, and G is eliminated, then I'm endorsing
> Z's
> second choice, and A wins.
>
> Which is right, if either?
>
> The only way I can really make sense of this is if PRESENT and Endorse are
> whole votes (i.e. substitute for the whole list, not part of a list). But
> I'm not sure if the rules say that, or are broken?
>
>
>
--
>From V.J. Rada
