[EM] Mass Candidates

[Stephane Rouillon]

Hi Dave,

any system that would leave a default value for unvalued/unranked/unapproved
candidates would help. Personnaly, I would suggest:
A) Let the voter precise the score, rank or state of all unexpressed
preferences;
B) I favor preference-style ballots over simple approbational ballots;
C) I favor ranking systems over scoring sytems.

The reason behid B) is that I think preferences help to get a more sincere
result
because the added details are worth more than the strategical opportunities
in my humble opinion.  I wrote C) for the same reason.
A) leaves the choice to the voter to specify hoped winners, hoped losers or
both.
Any preferential system that can treat equalities like IRV or Ranked Pairs
(wv)
could fit.  Still, voters should know in advance how a blank (All others)
value
would be interpreated. I hope it helps.

For example, I could vote:

Candidate 12 -> 1st rank
Candidate 56 -> 2nd rank
Candidate 112 -> 3rd rank
Candidate 201 -> 500th rank
All others -> 251.5th rank

Steph.

dave smith a écrit :

> Hi All,
>
> I need help in determining what voting system would be best for the
> following criteria:
>
> ~500 candidates
> ~1000 voters
> 1 winner
>
> I was going to do a form of PV, but limit the number of ranks to 3.
> The problem with this is that what if there are more candidates than
> voters, and the voters decided to stop paging through candidates after
> the 3rd - 4th page of candidates.
>
> Maybe an approval system would be better here?
>
> Thanks
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