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This is a test, to find out if I can get rid of the run-on lines by re-typing the posting with automatic linebreaks at the right margin instead of using the carriage-return. But does that mean that if I try to make a paragraph division, I'll instead end up with an endless line? Sorry, but I'm having difficulty sending readable e-mail wth my new computer system. Now let's try a paragraph and find out if that works:<BR> <BR>I'm copying the posting here, and will then rewrite it without the carriage-returns. What is sent will be the verion without the carriage-returns.(except for new paragraphs). One problem is that the "zoom" scale keeps changing, which could make nonsense of the automatic linebreaks.<BR> <BR>SODA can be described to someone in a brief way that people accept. In a recent convefrsation, I described SODA, and the person considered it acceptable. You're specifying the rules in too much detail. The initiative street-descrliption needn't be legal language, though that should be available upon request. Likewise, for the computer program of MTAOC, MCAOC and AOC.<BR><br>So here's how I described SODA to that person:<BR> <BR>It's like Approval, but, if you vote only for one person, you can optionally check a box indicating that you want that candidate to be able to add approval votes to your ballot on your behalf if s/he doesn't win. S/he will have previously published a ranking of candidates to indicate the order in which s/he would give such designated approvals. <BR><br>That's it. That brief descriptionl tells how the method works.<br> <br>As I said yesterday, it seems to me that it would be much more publicly-accepable if the default assumption is non-delegation. If someone wants to delegate, they can check the box.<BR> <BR>I'd better send this before the system finds a way to mess it up more, or freeze the computer, etc.<BR> <BR>(more when I can fix the remaining run-on lines in the posting)<BR> <BR>Mike Ossipoff.<BR> <BR><br>more complicated than Approval. Of course sometimes you only have time to mention Approval.<br> <br>(The problem causing the lack of linebreaks was probably opposite to what I'd believed it was. I should make sure that I let my text editor do the linebreaks automatically. That will probably be more l ikely to be transmitted in e-mail than my carriage-return<br>characters.)<br> <br>Mike Ossipoff<br> <br> <br><BR> </div></body>
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