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With a pairwise-count method, when a voter chooses the power truncation option, that means that s/he wants, for any candidate s/he doesn't rank, that his/her ballot be counted as voting every one of the other candidates against that one. |
With a pairwise-count method, when a voter chooses the power truncation option, that means that s/he wants, for any candidate s/he doesn't rank, that his/her ballot be counted as voting every one of the other candidates against that one. |
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So every candidate s/he doesn't rank is treated as if it were last-ranked on |
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his-her ballot, with all the others ranked over that candidate. |
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Revision as of 22:24, 20 June 2005
With a pairwise-count method, when a voter chooses the power truncation option, that means that s/he wants, for any candidate s/he doesn't rank, that his/her ballot be counted as voting every one of the other candidates against that one.
So every candidate s/he doesn't rank is treated as if it were last-ranked on his-her ballot, with all the others ranked over that candidate.