TOO MANY candidates. Voters cannot sort such a field in any reasonable
effort.
About their best choice is hearing from a handful of candidates and
sorting among them.
My vote, as about always, is for Condorcet, permitting ranking a little
more than 3, though 3 is enough to satisfy most. DO p
Hi Dave,
any system that would leave a default value for unvalued/unranked/unapproved
candidates would help. Personnaly, I would suggest:
A) Let the voter precise the score, rank or state of all unexpressed
preferences;
B) I favor preference-style ballots over simple approbational ballots;
C) I fa
--- dave smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need help in determining what voting system would be best for the
> following criteria:
>
> ~500 candidates
> ~1000 voters
> 1 winner
Can you tell us something about the context of the election? Who are
the voters, who/what are the cand
Seems unreasonable to expect the voters to know 500 candidates. The
winner would likely be someone who is well known to many of the
voters, though not necessarily in a way that makes the winner
qualified for the job (Schwartzenegger), or the winner might be very
popular with a plurality of the vote
From: dave smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I need help in determining what voting system would be best for the
> following criteria:
>
> ~500 candidates
> ~1000 voters
> 1 winner
>
> I was going to do a form of PV, but limit the number of ranks to 3.
> The problem with this is that what if there are mo
Hi All,
I need help in determining what voting system would be best for the
following criteria:
~500 candidates
~1000 voters
1 winner
I was going to do a form of PV, but limit the number of ranks to 3.
The problem with this is that what if there are more candidates than
voters, and the voters de
