Dear Sylvia: It is not possible in this type of voting method to assign equal weight to more than one candidate, nor can you not assign a value to a candidate. The mathematics behind the system would not work properly were you to be able to do this. Instant runoff voting and related voting methods are not as well-known in the USA as they are throughout the rest of the world, though increasingly the US is using these methods instead of the first-past-the-post system in municipal, county, and state elections, due to the perceived benefits many attribute to them over the aforementioned system. It may interest you to know that these voting methods ire actually used in more elections worldwide by far than the first-past-the-post system. Canadians will be quite familiar with them, as they have long been used in elections there. Sylvia Caras wrote:
I didn't know how to use the system to vote not 1, 2, 3 - but 1 and then 2 and 3 equally weighted, 2.5. The system wouldn't allow me to vote for only 1. So I didn't vote at all. I'm fine with the result, but not wholly comfortable with how the instant runoff works in this case.
Sylvia
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