How hard it is to vote in each system is an empirical, not a theoretical
system. The evidence is pretty clear that it is easier for most people to
rate candidates on an absolute scale - whether numeric or verbal - rather
than ranking them relative to each other. That is true despite the fact that
Mountains out of molehills:
I never claimed to be Typo Negative. Indeed, I am Type A Positive.
What I meant was:
With Condorcet, one must _“*RANK*”_ (I accidentally wrote _“*RATE*”_)
all of the candidates. Then one must resolve cycles.
I shall expand my
¡Hello!
¿How fare you?
In list Election-Methods run out of Electorama.Com, I hit upon why
rating is easier and faster than ranking:
With rating, one determines the best candidate and gives that candidate
the rating +99. One determines the worst candidate and
Luckily Condorcet can use both ranking and rating style ballots (because
rankings can always be derived from the more complex rating information). If
one uses ratings, voting in Condorcet is easier than in Range in the sense that
the voter need not care what numeric scale one uses. The first
