In case it is not clear, it is possible to set an STV or other preference-style vote to require the voter to select a preference for all candidates, or some candidates, or indeed only one candidate. However, this does affect the way the system handles your vote if your first choice is the minority choice of the other participants, and is eliminated in the first or subsequent rounds of vote tabulation, though I believe that Ralph is addressing this in his comments back to the community. Alan Greenberg wrote:
Exactly my point. Alan
At 07/12/2009 02:15 AM, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:
An "order of preference" seems confusing. It forces one to have a second (and third, etc) choice, when actually you may only wish to make one single choice. You end up indicating second and third choices only because the software forces you to, not because this is actually what you think.
Patrick
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