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So every candidate s/he doesn't rank is treated as if it were last-ranked on
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.
his-her ballot, with all the others ranked over that candidate.
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Revision as of 05:37, 2 February 2019

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.