<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:35 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Rather than starting a new effort, an interesting possibility is to<br>
amend many other methods which are more definitive (e.g. Score/Range,<br>
IRV) but have boundary conditions that make people nervous.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is everyone here aware of Score-Runoff Voting?<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.equal.vote/" target="_blank">https://www.equal.vote/</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's an amendment to Score meant to discourage Approval-style and bullet-style strategic voting. (It *encourages* expression of rankings, so your vote counts in the runoff, but doesn't require them, allowing expression of indifference and strong vs weak preferences, which are impossible with ranked ballots.)</div><div><br></div><div>Score-ballot open primaries followed by a top-two runoff election would be similar, in that it finds most-approved candidates and alleviates nervousness, etc.<br></div></div></div></div>