[EM] Voter's Choice with various ballotings

Forest Simmons fsimmons at pcc.edu
Fri Mar 9 06:50:57 PST 2001


I see your point. And I also see that there could be several different
reasonable versions of Voter's Choice, any one of which would be an
elegant way to resolve the lack of concensus on method.

The amount of variation in ballot types would have to be a function of the
time and energy that was available for processing them. 

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:

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> >don't you think that it would be easier to infer
> >all of the other ballots from CR than from a pure ranking?
> 
> Yes, but maybe some people will only vote CR, and some will only
> vote a ranking, and some will only vote Approval. So it could be
> necessary to infer any of those ballots from the others.
> 
> The thing about rankings is that it's the easiest kind of ballot
> to make out, and so it's likely that some would only vote a ranking.
> 
> And if people don't agree on which balloting they like, we can't
> make any one of them the official balloting of the election.
> 
> Mike Ossipoff
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