User:BetterVotingAdvocacy/Negative vote-counting approach for pairwise counting: Difference between revisions

=== Dealing with truncation ===

When voters aren't allowed to do [[truncation]] (and [[Write-in candidate|Write-in candidat]]<nowiki/>es aren't allowed), then it can be useful to skip the part of the negative counting procedure where the vote-counters mark how many ballots a candidate is ranked on, and instead assume a candidate is preferred in every matchup on every voter's ballot. The negative votes would then be applied as usual.

* This works because every candidate will actually be marked on every voter's ballot.

* This would obviously be impractical when voters are allowed to truncate, however, because it could mean negative votes would have to be applied to each and every ballot for a candidate no voters ranked.