[EM] range with L levels chew up L slots? - other ideas by Lomax & me

[Warren Smith]

range with L levels chew up L slots? - other ideas by Lomax & me

It is actually possible to do range with L levels on plurality voting machines with
only chewing up  log[base2](L)  slots per candidate, not L.

This is a huge improvement: L=512 becomes 9.
Unfortunately, it requires the voters to think in binary
rather than decimal, and that is probably unacceptable.
(Basically, this is Lomax's "2^N possible combinations" idea,
but done more clearly, kind of - the levers for each candidate have
weights 1,2,4,8,16,...)   In fact, this was my original
idea for running range on plurality machines which I invented years ago
but dismissed as probably unacceptable in real life.  So then I just stewed
for a few years uselessly,...

But then Jan Kok invented a way to do it with decimal and chew-ratio L
not logL, and Kok's plan seemed to me highly acceptable in real life
since it was highly human-compatible and intuitive for the voter.
Kok's is the scheme described on the CRV web page for running range elections
on plurality machines.

wds