It seems very odd to me that, in the process of transferring the lower-preference votes, that those votes are not somehow reduced in 'importance'.
Because you can't really make assumptions about how strongly people favour candidates. If I prefer A to B, I'll vote A. If C comes along who I like even better, that doesn't mean how much I like A has been reduced, just that C is in preference.
If C is my first preference, but gets knocked out in round 1, my intent is that my vote should be for A, which gets counted in round 2. (And people who voted for A as first choice still get their votes counted again in round 2, so no ones getting more votes that others, as the No2AV campaign claim.)
I agree with strange_complex's point about X Factor - if in the first week the person you vote for is the one knocked out, should your vote for later rounds be halved (or even, not count at all)?
There are systems that allow people to express weightings, but that has to be done with a scoring system rather than preferences, e.g., range voting.
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Date: 2011-04-13 10:50 am (UTC)Because you can't really make assumptions about how strongly people favour candidates. If I prefer A to B, I'll vote A. If C comes along who I like even better, that doesn't mean how much I like A has been reduced, just that C is in preference.
If C is my first preference, but gets knocked out in round 1, my intent is that my vote should be for A, which gets counted in round 2. (And people who voted for A as first choice still get their votes counted again in round 2, so no ones getting more votes that others, as the No2AV campaign claim.)
I agree with
There are systems that allow people to express weightings, but that has to be done with a scoring system rather than preferences, e.g., range voting.