[EM] "Implied ranked choice" method

[Eric Gorr]

At 8:50 PM +0000 8/31/04, Rob Brown wrote:
>Instead of the voters having to rank candidates, they just vote like they do
>today, for a single candidate.  But each candidate would provide the list of
>second choice candidates.  So if I vote for Nader, I am automatically voting
>for a ranked choice list, with Nader at the top, but which is Nader's idea of
>who else would be the best alternative choices.
>
>Has anyone ever proposed such a thing?

Yes.

With software, providing such a feature would be trivial. Each 
candidate could provide their preferred ranking, a Political Party 
could provide theirs, various political groups could provide theirs, 
etc.

The voter could select one of these rankings or would always have the 
option of doing it themselves...some voters will take the time to 
educate themselves.


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