[EM] Remember Toby

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

Dave Ketchum wrote:
> Been a busy day on this thread.  I will try for Condorcet, to sell that 
> it can be good and usable by voters without requiring much new 
> understanding by them.
> 
> Ranking:  
>      IRV ranking, learned by many, is a start, with equal ranking a 
> trivial addition.
>      Approval voting permissible and usable as valid Condorcet by using 
> a single rank number.
> 
> How many rank numbers?  Three, as in IRV, is  probable reasonable 
> minimum.  More needs thought, but not necessarily many - usability of 
> equal ranks minimizes true need for more. 

I think some STV countries use ranked ballot types where you write a 
number in front of the candidate. The ballot is is then checked using 
OCR and forwarded to a manual count if ambiguous. These types of ballot 
could permit as many rankings as there are candidates, and seem 
reasonably simple as long as the electorate knows how to count.