Toplak Jurij wrote: >Preferential voting; n. Example of a non-sequiter. Good point. "Preferential voting" sounds to me like the kind of opaque term with as many syllables as possible that might have been invented by the academic voting intelligentsia precisely for the purpose of keeping ordinary people confused and in the dark. :)
As a more comprehensible alternative I would go with "ranked ballots". Cheers, Bryan ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
