Independence of Irrelevant Ballots: Difference between revisions

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A generalization of this concept is to treat an irrelevant ballot as simply being a ballot with no preference between the candidates in a set of candidates, and the requirement as being that that ballot shouldn't impact who wins or loses among that set of candidates.
 
In general, [[Largest remainder method|Largest remainder methods]] violate this criterion because an irrelevant voter will change the size of the quota. See the [[DivisorQuota method#Notes|Highest-averages methodrule#Notes]] article for an example.
 
== Blank Ballot Criterion ==