EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | David Mertz, et al.
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Ranked Order Voting
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Comment : | Practice that allows voters to rank candidates in a contest in order of choice: 1, 2, 3 and so on. Tabulation of ranked votes may be done by any of several methods, depending on jurisdictional rules. Well known tabulation methods include: Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) in which votes are reassigned over rounds of tabulation, until a majority is reached; Condorcet in which a total order is treated as a set of pairwise preferences between candidates; Borda in which differentranks are worth different numbers of "points." Ranked order voting is also sometimes referred to as preferences, preferential voting, or choice voting. Association: voting Source: VSS, IEEE 1583, IEEE 1622 Explanation: Unfortunately, the draft version was just plain dead wrong. IRV is perhaps the most widely used and advocated tabulation method in the US. But the concept of ranked order pertains to how a ballot is voted; how it is tabulated is an independent concept. The American Mathematical Society has a nice web page on this issue: http://www.ams.org/new-in-math/cover/voting-decision.html