[EM] Ballot for Poll. Voting period starts now.

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Here is the ballot for the presidential poll. There are 24 candidates, 
unless I've missed on, which isn't likely.

Post your completed ballot to EM. During the balloting period we'll set up 
voting at the Condorcet count websites.  But in the meantime, at least post 
your ballot to EM.

The order in which they're listed on the ballot is: First the ones who were 
known to be declared candidates (in alphabetical order), then ones who might 
be candidates and were nominated, and then others in the order in which they 
were nominated, or nearly so.

The 1st column has candidate-names, the 2nd column has spaces for rank 
numbers, the 3rd column has spaces for Approval votes, and the 4th column 
has spaces for CR 0-100 ratings. At the top of the ballot are places to 
indicate where you want your Approval cutoff &/or automatic equal ranking 
line, if you want to use those.

Having both an Approval votes column and also an Approval cutoff indication 
is so that someone preferring one or the other can use the one they prefer. 
Of course one could use both. If someone uses both, and the 2 Approval votes 
disagree, then the Approvall marks will take precedence over the Approval 
cutoff.

This ballot will probably be posted a little before 1200 GMT, 17 February. 
So let's say that the voting deadline is one week after that: 24 February, 
at 1200 GMT.

As I was saying, anyone can change their vote by re-posting their ballot, at 
any time before the voting deadlline, as many times as they want to.

After the voting deadline there'll be a one-week period during which anyone 
can promote candidates to 1st place if they want to. That's to counter 
possible offensive order-reversal.

Having that, and also the automatic equal ranking line option, is for 
convenience for those who prefer one to the other. If you've used the 
automatic equal ranking line option, you might not need to bother doing 
manual promotions to 1st place later. On the other hand, the week for manual 
1st place promotions is a good thing for anyone who hasn't used an automatic 
equal ranking line.

Of course the manual 1st place promotion could achieve more flexibility.

Of course you can expand the voting mark boxes for 2-digit rank numbers or 
3-digit CR ratings.

Ballot:

If you want to have an Approval cutoff,  below what rank position do you 
want it? [ ]

If you want to have an automatic equal ranking line, below what rank 
position do you want it? [ ]

Candidates                Ranks   Approval     CR

Howard  Dean            [ ]          [ ]          [ ]
Edwards                    [ ]          [ ]          [ ]
Kerry                        [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Kucinich                    [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Nader                       [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Sharpton                   [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Jim Hightower            [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Amy Goodman            [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Ron Daniels                 [ ]          [ ]          [ ]
Medea Benjamin          [ ]          [ ]          [ ]
Winona LaDuke           [ ]          [ ]          [ ]
Bill Moyers                   [ ]          [ ]          [ ]
Peter Camejo              [ ]          [ ]          [ ]
Michael Parenti            [ ]          [ ]          [ ]
Cynthia McKinney         [ ]          [ ]          [ ]
Ron Paul                     [ ]          [ ]          [ ]
Jerry Falwell                [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Micharel Badnerik         [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Gary Nolan                  [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Aaron Russo                [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Blake Ashby                [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Bill Wyatt                    [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
John Rigazio                [ ]           [ ]          [ ]
Millie Howard               [ ]           [ ]          [ ]

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