> Abd ul-Rahman Lomax> Sent: 30 December 2006 15:42 > > Well, it is a bit irritating to me, and perhaps to some others, that > AV is used in the paper to refer to Alternative Vote; we routinely > use it for Approval Voting.
Maybe, but I suspect US readers will find that the acromyn "AV" was used for "Alternative Vote" many decades before the term "Approval Voting" was first coined by Robert J. Weber in 1976 (Wikipedia). James Gilmour ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
