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<h4 class=left>Complying Methods</h4>
[[Approval voting]] and [[Score voting]], when tweaking the definition to involve rating rather than ranking, pass the criterion.
<p>'''Later-no-help''' is satisfied by [[IRV|Instant Runoff Voting]] and Douglas Woodall's [[Descending Acquiescing Coalitions]] method. Some forms of [[Majority Choice Approval]] satisfy this criterion. It is trivially satisfied by [[Plurality voting|First-Preference Plurality]] and [[Random Ballot]], since those methods do not usually regard lower preferences. Virtually every other method fails this criterion.</p>▼
▲<p>'''Later-no-help''' (LNHe or LNHelp) is satisfied by [[IRV|Instant Runoff Voting]] and Douglas Woodall's [[Descending Acquiescing Coalitions]] method. Some forms of [[Majority Choice Approval]] satisfy this criterion. It is trivially satisfied by [[Plurality voting|First-Preference Plurality]] and [[Random Ballot]], since those methods do not usually regard lower preferences. Virtually every other method fails this criterion.</p>
[[Symmetrical ICT]] doesn't pass LNHe, but complies with Strong [[0-info LNHe]], which, some claim for practical purposes is just as good.
<h4 class=left>Commentary</h4>
'''Later-no-help''' guarantees that the method will not use a voter's indicated lower preferences to elect a higher-ranked candidate who would not have been elected if this voter had not expressed any lower preferences; it is about the absence of need for bottom-end strategy. For instance, many methods that fail LNHe have a strategy-need to rank unacceptable candidates in reverse order of winnability.
As a result, voters may feel free to rank candidates between whom they have no clear preference equally, rather than expressing insincere preferences between those candidates which could effect the outcome of the election.
LNHe-complying methods' freedom from bottom-end strategy is reminiscent of and analogous to [[FBC]] complying methods' freedom from need for the top-end strategy of favorite-burial.
'''Later-no-help''' is incompatible with the [[Condorcet Criterion|Condorcet criterion]].
== Alternative Definitions ==
1. While making out your ballot, when you have voted for some candidates, you don't need to vote for additional candidates in order to fully help the candidates for whom you've already voted.
To vote for a candidate means to vote him/her over at least one other candidate.
To fully help a candidate means to vote in a way that does as much as possible toward making him/her win.
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[[Category:Voting system criteria]]
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