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<p>Forest,<br>
<br>
With paper and pencil ballots and the voters only writing in their
numerical scores it probably isn't very practical for the
Australian Electoral Commission<br>
hand vote-counters.<br>
<br>
But if it isn't compulsory to mark each candidate and the default
score is zero, I'm sure the voters could quickly adapt.<br>
<br>
In the US I gather that there is at least one reform proposal to
use these type of ballots. One of these, "Score Voting" aka "Range
Voting", <br>
proposes to just use Average Ratings with I gather the default
score being "no opinion" rather than zero and some tweak to
prevent an unknown<br>
candidate from winning.<br>
<br>
So it struck me that if we can collect such a large amount of
detailed information from the voters then we could do a lot more
with it, and if we<br>
want something that meets the Condorcet criterion this is my
suggestion.<br>
<br>
Chris Benham<br>
<br>
<a href="https://rangevoting.org/">https://rangevoting.org/</a><br>
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score voting works:</b></big></nobr></p>
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<li>Each<span> </span><a
href="https://rangevoting.org/MeaningOfVote.html"
title="What a 'vote' is" style="border: 1px; color: rgb(0,
0, 0); text-decoration: none; background: rgb(209, 154,
59);">vote</a><span> </span>consists of a numerical score
within some range (say<span> </span><a
href="https://rangevoting.org/Why99.html" title="Other
scores such as 0-10 also are possible and we do not insist
on 0-99. Link explains why 0-99 is a good choice and how
to use other scores." style="border: 1px; color: rgb(95,
14, 0); text-decoration: none;">0 to 99</a>) for each
candidate. Simpler is 0 to 9 ("single digit score voting").</li>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/06/2019 5:33 am, Forest Simmons
wrote:<br>
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<div>Chris, I like it especially the part about naive voters
voting sincerely being at no appreciable disadvantage while
resisting burial and complying with the CD criterion. <br>
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<div>From your experience in Australia where full rankings are
required (as I understand it) what do you think about the
practicality of rating on a scale of zero to 99, as compared
with ranking a long list of candidates? Is it a big obstacle?<br>
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