How about having the voters rank the candidates with the option of skipping numbers: the more numbers skipped the stronger the preference. Thus 1 Ann, 3 Jill, 4 Jack, 7 John would translate to Ann>>Jill>Jack>>>John Forest
Juho wrote ... Ranked preferences could be derived from range. A=99, B=60, C=50, D=11 could be read as A>>B>C>>D. The information could be read also from some "floating point graphical format" (e.g. bars of different length). In these styles it may not be easy to express preferences of equal strength (like A>>B and C>>D above). One quite easy style would be computer assisted ballot creation in the style shown below. Lines between the candidates indicate distance / strength of preference. ============================================== Smith Jones ----- Brown ----- ----- <others> ============================================== Juho Laatu
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