[EM] Ranked/disapproval voting

[Richard Lung]

Basic Binomial STV is a system that allows both to elect and exclude candidates, by using the Meek surplus transfer computer count both to elect candidates, and also to exclude them, doing away with the "last past the post" elimination when the election surplus transfers run out.
It means that all abstentions, any where and possibly everywhere, on the ballot must be counted, to evaluate the relative importance of elections and exclusions to the voters. 
An exclusion count may reinforce an election count, if the candidate is both popular and not unpopular with other voters.

Regards, 
Richard Lung. 



On 30 Aug 2023, at 3:49 pm, Colin Champion <colin.champion at routemaster.app> wrote:

Ralph Suter recently proposed approval/disapproval voting, which (as a natural disapprover) I found attractive.

Maybe something similar makes sense for ranked voting. You rank as many candidates as you want, leaving the rest blank if you have no opinion, or marking an X if you positively dislike them. If there are only 5 candidates, it's just as easy to rank all 5, but if there are 10, most of whom you know nothing about, you don't want to rank the full set in order to indicate your view of a couple of monsters. So maybe something of this sort would encourage voters to provide enough information to make ranked voting work on fields of size 10 or so.

CJC
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