[EM] Demo of n-rank ballot for U.S. president

[Dave Ketchum]

I have trouble finding fault with SIX rankings:

This is a demo, and six is enough to demonstrate.

How many serious contenders can there be:
      1 - so voting is probably meaningless - happens VERY often.
      2 - so vote for my preference among them - having less than 3 
happens VERY often.
      3 or more - more and more unlikely.

Do I like, equally, groups of 2 or more of the serious contenders? Each 
group needs a rank under Condorcet with equality (not clear to me how to 
handle equality for IRV).

Perhaps my preference is not among the serious contenders - so need one 
extra rank to let me rank mine first (this paragraph applies with me not 
expecting mine to win, so I still need to vote among the serious contenders).

Remember that the lemons can all be unranked.

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 06:46:34 -0400 James Green-Armytage wrote:

> Dear Rob,
> 
> 	Sorry to state the obvious, but I'm noticing that your interface only
> supports six possible rankings. While this should work for a wide variety
> of situations, it is probably not ideal. I do enjoy the stars, though;
> it's extremely clear who is doing better than whom, and I especially like
> the way that you can sort them at any point; that's very helpful.
> 	Here are a couple of other interesting online ballot interfaces (which
> you may already be familiar with, but oh well):
> http://elonen.iki.fi/code/ballot/
> http://www5.cs.cornell.edu/~andru/civs/public_elections.html
> (there are at least two separate ones here at CIVS)
> 
> my best,
> James Green-Armytage

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