[EM] A procedure for handling large numbers of candidates using scorevoting with primaries and runoffs.

[⸘Ŭalabio‽]

	¡Hello!

	¿How fare you?

	We require candidates to get the squareroot of the number of voters to get on the ballot with writeins allowed.  Let us look at an hypothetical single-winnerelection:

	Let us suppose that 420 people make the ballot.  ¿How can the voters vet this many candidates?  Well now, we have a score of parties and a score of independents.  That is a score of candidates per party and a score of independents.  We have score-voting primaries.  The voters only have to inform themselves about a score of candidates:

	We have scorevoting primaries with a range of -99 to +99 with writeins allowed.  All candidates with positive scores go to a scorevoting runoff.  Then the top 2 from scorevoting runoff goto a top-2 runoff.  For our purposes, independents are a party and have primaries.

	We just reduced the number of candidates from 420 to 21, 1 from each party and 1 independent.  Then we go to the general election:

	We have a scorevoting general election.  All candidates with positive sums go to a scorevoting runoff.  Then the top 2 go to a top-2 runoff.  Using primaries and runoffs, we successfully vetted 420 candidates.  It only took 6 elections.  If we have 1 election every 2 months, we can do it all in 1 year.

	¡Peace!

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