> On Sep 14, 2017, at 2:45 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> Superintendent, Surveyor:
> {
> PRESENT,
> Incumbent of that office if e votes for emself first on eir list of options,
> the first person (in time) to vote for emself first (on eir list of options)
> }.
>
> Comment:
>
> I have no idea how to handle PRESENT in runoff voting. Is it a replacement
> for the whole list, or is it an option on the list? If it's the first option
> on a ranked voting, is PRESENT "eliminated" if it doesn't win, so my vote
> doesn't
> end up counting towards quorum? And what happens if PRESENT is the majority?
> is everyone else eliminated? I'm not sure if the "standard definition of
> instant
> runoff" covers this. So let's test that in some slightly-less essential
> offices.
> Fun!!It seems clear to me that PRESENT in an IR vote should be the entire ballot, not a single entry in the ballot. PRESENT has, under Agoran tradition, mean “Count me towards quorum, but not towards any specific outcome.” Agora's IRV system is currently almost entirely “common definition,” though, and I don’t believe there’s any obvious common definition that permits PRESENT or any similar non-option mid-ballot. -o
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