[EM] ruminations on ordinal and cardinal information

[Jobst Heitzig]

Dear Russ!

I completely agree with what you wrote!

Just like you, I think that
> an "ideal" election
>  method must integrate both ordinal and cardinal information, and the
>  cardinal information should be simple approval (yes/no for each
> candidate).

I would even go so far to claim that the ideal election should also give
special relevance to a third kind of information: "direct" support.

For example by using Random Ballot to choose from a small set of most
acceptable candidates such as Forest's P.

Or, a new idea, if you find randomization inacceptable, by electing the
member of P with the most direct support!

Yours, Jobst