[EM] rank/approval cutoff ballot

[Dan Bishop]

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:

> ...
>
> If something like asset voting or delegable proxy is implemented, 
> people might run who would only expect to get a few votes. Full 
> rank/approval ballots would not only become impossible, but setting up 
> a rank system where every candidate must be ranked is ... ridiculous, 
> unless candidates are all well-known and there are not too many of 
> them. Limiting candidates is a basically anti-democratic move. So 
> write-ins, at least, must be possible. And what if the voter prefers 
> *two* write-ins over all the listed candidates?

I think a good solution would be for elections to have two rounds:

1. A qualifying primary, done entirely with write-in ballots, and 
counted using Approval.  Candidates with a sufficient number of votes 
would advance to...

2. A runoff election, using ranked ballots.