On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 21:05 -0400, Warren Smith wrote: > I do not especially recommend running range elections in this style. > I would much prefer it if there were voting machines specifically designed > for range voting. However, because range voting CAN be done on > plurality machines as a stopgap measure, that makes it a lot > more adoptible than many other forms of voting, for > example IRV, which CANNOT be done on many kinds of plurality machines. > Indicating a ranked ballot on a machine not designed for it is no more difficult than indicating a ranged ballot. This follows naturally from the fact that you can do a one-way transformation on a ranged ballot to a ranked ballot.
There's a great picture of an old New York lever machine converted to STV during New York's brief stint with it in the forties here: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/history/public_history/PR/voting_machine.html At least, I think that's what's going on in that picture. Thanks, Scott Ritchie ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
