I have trouble finding fault with SIX rankings:
This is a demo, and six is enough to demonstrate.
How many serious contenders can there be:
1 - so voting is probably meaningless - happens VERY often.
2 - so vote for my preference among them - having less than 3 happens VERY often.
3 or more - more and more unlikely.
Do I like, equally, groups of 2 or more of the serious contenders? Each group needs a rank under Condorcet with equality (not clear to me how to handle equality for IRV).
Perhaps my preference is not among the serious contenders - so need one extra rank to let me rank mine first (this paragraph applies with me not expecting mine to win, so I still need to vote among the serious contenders).
Remember that the lemons can all be unranked.
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 06:46:34 -0400 James Green-Armytage wrote:
Dear Rob,
Sorry to state the obvious, but I'm noticing that your interface only supports six possible rankings. While this should work for a wide variety of situations, it is probably not ideal. I do enjoy the stars, though; it's extremely clear who is doing better than whom, and I especially like the way that you can sort them at any point; that's very helpful. Here are a couple of other interesting online ballot interfaces (which you may already be familiar with, but oh well): http://elonen.iki.fi/code/ballot/ http://www5.cs.cornell.edu/~andru/civs/public_elections.html (there are at least two separate ones here at CIVS)
my best, James Green-Armytage
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