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In response to "Anyone care to summarize for me what "preferential voting" is? I am unfamiliar. -- nm" by con_carne

You submit a list of votes. The first in the list gets 10 preferential votes from you, the 10th gets only 1 preferential vote from you

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Jan 6 '10, 08:29

in between scales accordingly.

Then, everyone's preferential votes are tallied up and the winner is decided from the pool. Basically, take the number of voters and multiply it by the number of items they can nominate (or a factorial thereof), and that's the number of actual "votes" that will be placed.

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- he's not necessarily right, but that is one way to tally preferential votes. there are many. -- nm - mafic Jan 6, 08:53 1
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more math - Beryllium Jan 6, 08:34 1
- or 2000. whatever. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 6, 08:34
Ah, yes. Didn't know that method of voting was called that name. Thx! -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 08:31

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You submit a list of votes. The first in the list gets 10 preferential votes from you, the 10th gets only 1 preferential vote from you

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