I assume then the plan would be that those ballots just won’t continue to matter in the election?
No, it sounds like they will count as equally weighted votes. From the article: “If all of a voter’s points were assigned to candidates which are now eliminated, we’ll pretend that the voter spread their points out equally across the remaining candidates.”
I think both would be ok choices
I also assume that the way the renormalization step works is that if everyone gets 10pts and someone voted A − 6pts, B − 2pts, C − 2pts and then A is eliminated, their ballot is then changed to “B − 5pts, C − 5pts”? And if B is also eliminated, their ballot becomes “C − 10pts”?
Basically, yes, according to my understanding. Except that there is no fixed point limit, but every voters points get normalized so that voters have equal weights.
Also do you allow for undervoting (e.g., a ballot that doesn’t allocate points to three options but is just “A − 10pts” full stop)?
No, it sounds like they will count as equally weighted votes. From the article: “If all of a voter’s points were assigned to candidates which are now eliminated, we’ll pretend that the voter spread their points out equally across the remaining candidates.” I think both would be ok choices
Basically, yes, according to my understanding. Except that there is no fixed point limit, but every voters points get normalized so that voters have equal weights.
I would guess yes, based on the description.