[EM] ranked preferences

[Juho]

This makes voting one step easier than with the 0-99 style Range  
votes. Some calculations needed still to see/check the relative  
strength of the preferences. This proposal brings into my mind  
another intermediate variant Ann--Jill-Jack---John where the dashes  
"-" represent ones "1" and can be summed up to get the numbers that  
you used. The dashes maybe look nicer than the ">"s.

Juho Laatu


On Oct 26, 2006, at 20:06 , Simmons, Forest wrote:

> How about having the voters rank the candidates with the option of  
> skipping numbers: the more numbers skipped the stronger the  
> preference.  Thus
>
> 1 Ann, 3 Jill, 4 Jack, 7 John
>
> would translate to
>
> Ann>>Jill>Jack>>>John
>
> Forest
>
>
>
> Juho wrote ...
>
>
> Ranked preferences could be derived from range. A=99, B=60, C=50,
> D=11 could be read as A>>B>C>>D. The information could be read also
> from some "floating point graphical format" (e.g. bars of different
> length). In these styles it may not be easy to express preferences of
> equal strength (like A>>B and C>>D above).
>
> One quite easy style would be computer assisted ballot creation in
> the style shown below. Lines between the candidates indicate
> distance / strength of preference.
> ==============================================
> Smith
> Jones
> -----
> Brown
> -----
> -----
> <others>
> ==============================================
>
> Juho Laatu
>
>
>
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