At 12:07 AM 10/2/2006, Jan Kok wrote: >On 10/1/06, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This can be alleviated by putting different contests on different ballots. > >There is still the possibility of mischief if there are many >candidates in a contest.
Very difficult. However, what about write-in votes? It seems to me that it is presently easy to identify a ballot by a write-in vote on it.... And eliminating write-ins further solidifies the establishment. >With Range Voting, each _candidate_ can be put on a separate ballot. And, of course, this is also true for Approval (Approval is the simplest form of Range Voting.) Indeed, Approval Voting seriously damages the impact of vote buying or coercion. >Range Voting ballots can be made simpler (and make it more difficult >for voters to identify their ballots) by reducing the number of >rating-choices available. For example, is anyone going to be upset >that they can't give some candidate a 53? The choices 0, 10, ...90, 99 >or 100 should be sufficient, with I think one exception: I would like >to vote max-1 for second choice and lesser-evil candidates. (It's >symbolic, and also can be used for distinguishing non-favorites from >favorites for allocating public campaign funds.) I think that allowing ten choices is actually even more than is necessary. I really doubt that the second digit represents more than the finest shade of opinion. Okay, I prefer A to B, but they are both really, really good, so I'd give A a 99 and B a 98... But a 9 and an 8 is *almost* as good for this purpose; however, the purpose itself is not sound. If A and B are reasonably close, I should rate them the same, and let statistical variation in the public create the refinement. The fact is that if I rate one a 9 and the other an 8, there is very little difference; my preference is quite likely coming from something other than a rational judgement of their qualities in office. However, even this purpose is satisfied by adding one more box: Preferred. Which would not affect the ratings, Preferred would be counted as a 9, but would be separately tabulated. For example, for public campaign finance funding.... ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info