ext_296891 ([identity profile] thebrokenladder.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] kevin_standlee 2007-01-24 04:27 am (UTC)

STV isn't a "subset" of STV. STV can be used to select X winners out of a group of Y. If Y is 100, and X is 5, you call it STV. If Y is 100 and X is 2, you call it STV. If Y is 100 and X is 1, you called it "IRV" -- it's still STV.

The same is true of Range Voting and Reweighted Range Voting. If you use RRV to elect 1 winner, it's just the same as Range Voting. One could just dispense with the distinction, except that you might pick, say, a school board by holding six regional single-winner RV elections, or you might do it by having ONE multi-winner RRV election. But IRV _IS_ STV, make no mistake about it.

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