Ballot is identical.
Voting is identical, except strategy can get involved in rare cases.
They usually agree as to winner (it is easy to assume otherwise because test cases, unlike normal voting, are often picked to demonstrate and discus disagreement).
DWK
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:38:54 +0200 Toplak Jurij wrote:
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 Europe)
- 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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