[EM] High5 voting (~ Smith//Approval on a reduced set)

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 2023-12-16 13:44, C.Benham wrote:
> 
> Why do at least several US Americans here think there is something  
> problematic and/or weird about allowing both quite
> a large number of candidates on the ballot and voters to strictly rank  
> exactly as many of them as they wish?
> 

I guess it's partly that some US locations do this de facto anyway (e.g. 
some places using IRV only lets the voters rank three candidates). And I 
*think* that's due to legacy hardware? Optical scan machines that can 
only read bubbles, and mechanical ones that can only read a certain 
number of holes.

I'm not sure, though.

> I prefer Smith//Condorcet, but accept that that is more complex to 
> explain and sell and probably the most approved candidate
> will nearly always be in the voted Smith set.

Do you mean Smith//Approval?

-km