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I don’t mean to be flippant, but what
voting as performed by a voter would not be “preferential”? Any
collection procedure that gives the voter a choice asks for a preference. So “preferential
voting” is a noise phrase that doesn’t mean anything at all since
it applies to every method that asks for voter input. I suppose you could make an argument that “preferential
voting” is the voters’ act of voting for their preferences as
opposed to voting opposite their preferences (by any method), or that “preferential
voting” is “preferring to vote or preferring not to vote”. But to quote the very wise HAL-9000
(somewhat out of context) “The phrase does not admit an explanation.”
If I had to define it formally, I’d
use: Preferential voting; n. Example of a
non-sequiter. From: Toplak Jurij
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] During the last days the discussion on this list
has focused primarily on the terminology. Coincidently I am working on a paper
that tries to define "preferential voting". Literature offers numerous understandings and definitions: - 'preferential voting' is often used as a synonim for
Alternative Vote or IRV - 'preferential voting' is sometimes used as another name
for STV - 'preferential voting' is often used to
denote 'ranking methods' (thus including STV, AV, Borda, etc.) - 'preferential voting is often used to denote a preference
for a single candidate within List PR (this definition is used mainly in - mathematicians put first-past-the-post in the group of
preferential voting schemes, but approval voting is not a member of this group - some authors put US primaries under 'preferential voting'
(Katz, for instance) Is it possible to define preferential voting at all? I'd be grateful for any comments. jure |
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