Hi, Branden Robinson: > It is not possible for to express a lack of preference among multiple > options simultaneously with a preference for any of those multiple > options over another option? > False (in general).
> Is my understanding correct? > That depends on how you arrange the voting process. The Concordet system has no problem at all with giving the same preference to more than one option, but you have to set the vote up in such a way that this is possible. If you say "write down the names of the candidates in the order in which you prefer them", you eliminate that possibility (as well as voters who can't spell ;-). But you could use a [2] A [3] B [1] C [2] D vote, i.e. fill-in-the-ranking-number. Or you could allow the voter to indicate equal preference by placing a "|" sign between the options which they rank equal. Or ... -- Matthias Urlichs | noris network AG | http://smurf.noris.de/
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