<div>Democracy Chronicles, at <a href="http://www.democracychronicles.com">http://www.democracychronicles.com</a>, now has an automated Approval balloting, , on party platforms, on the front page, in the margin.</div><div>
</div><div>As with the rank-balloting poll, conducted in the "comments" space of the article that announces the rank-balloting poll, the Approval poll has four "candidates":</div><div> </div><div>(listed in alphabetical order)</div>
<div> </div><div>Democrat</div><div>Green</div><div>Libertarian</div><div>Republican</div><div> </div><div>As with the rank-balloting poll, the poll is about _platforms_. Voters are encouraged to look at a few platforms, all of which are linked to, from links near the ballot.</div>
<div> </div><div>Though write-ins are allowed in the rank-balloting poll (in which voters write their rankings in the comments-space, write-ins aren't feasible for the automated Approval balloting in the margin of the front-page.</div>
<div> </div><div>Though it's an Approval balloting, so that anyone who approves a compromise can always also approve hir favorite, voters are encouraged to only approve their favorite.</div><div> </div><div>Michael Ossipoff</div>
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