On the Wikipedia election method pages, I've added
ballot images to Wikipedia for three types of voting:
1. One vote - 2 ballot formats
2.
Approval vote - 4 ballot formats
IMAGES:
3.
Rank vote - 4 ballot formats
IMAGES:
The images are not overly beautiful, but I tried to
be consistent, and they are reasonable starting points to consider variations
that might be used. (Mainly better "instructions" at the top.)
The Rank ballots include a "Touch screen" format
which would be a dynamic display that would confirm each vote. A "touch screen"
ballot for each ballot type could be drawn as well. It is difficult to
really demonstrate a dynamic display ballot clearly in a single
image.
Another category of ballots could be added for
Cardinal Ratings, example 10 point scale, considering thee forms - hand-written
names, hand-written scores, marked column-rating scores.
Cardinal Ratings also optionally could have an
(N-1) column format, with an implicit "zero" score if a candidate
is unmarked, just like Approval can have an implicit "No/zero" score for an
unmarked candidate, ALTHOUGH I think it would be a rather bad idea since voters
wouldn't necessarily recognize this option even if it was clearly stated in the
instructions.
Hopefully my ballot designs offered won't be
controversial, although I'm sure they deserve more care than I made for best
clarity.
Maybe this is a really trivial exercise, unworthy
of discussion?
Of course, in part, I'm offering them in
regard to my assertion that there are three main categories of ballots "one
vote", "rankings vote", and "ratings vote", with approval as a special case of
ratings.
I also think Condorcet election ballots deserve
consideration also for a pairwise preference ballot, even if rather cumbersome
with over 4 candidates. Condorcet can easily use a "ranking" ballot for
counting, and voters shouldn't be allowed to offer cyclic preferences possible
in a pairwise preference ballot. However giving voters the chance to offer
illogical preferences allows an extra "consistency check" to prevent voters from
misranking because they were voting too quickly.
Tom Ruen
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