[EM] Obvious Approval advantages. SODA. Approval-Runoff.

[Jameson Quinn]

Actually, SODA can work with a normal ballot, as long as there's a write-in
option. You just write in "do not delegate", or "Bender the Robot", and
check the box. Since you have more than one check, your ballot is no longer
delegated.

Also, SODA is a bit more than just approval with a delegation option. The
candidate predeclarations, and the order for using delegated ballots, both
help get a good resolution the chicken dilemma.

Jameson

2012/3/8 Kevin Venzke <stepjak at yahoo.fr>

> Hi Mike,
>
> I don't think Approval-Runoff can get off the ground since it's too
> apparent that a party could nominate two candidates (signaling that one
> is just a pawn to aid the other) and try to win by grabbing both of the
> finalist positions. If this happened regularly it would be just an
> expensive version of FPP.
>
> SODA actually does allow you to not delegate via checking a box. But
> a version that required delegation might be interesting because it
> wouldn't require an "approval plus checkbox" ballot, it would just need
> a vote-for-one ballot.
>
> Kevin
>
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