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<div>STAR Voting seems to be simple enough to have a good chance at public acceptance.</div>
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<div>I used to turn up my nose at it because the second place Range/Score candidate is likely to be a clone of the ratings winner. In other words, it seemed like an inelegant version of Cardinal Ratings, which seems like a less frugal, cumbersome method for
finding the Approval Winner.</div>
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<div>But if that's the most appealing public proposal that's strategically equivalent to Approval, I say time to swallow my pride and go for it!</div>
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<div>Also the STAR camp may not be as hardened against suggestions as the leading IRV proponents are ... including the suggestion of a Condorcet check on the front end.</div>
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<div>They might even be open to incorporating the use of VPR (Voting for a Published Rating)... facilitated replication of the ballot recommendations of your favorite candidate, party, or other institution.</div>
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<div>No matter what method is adopted, it should be implemented in a Replicate a Published Recommendation Option shell, to simplify the voting process as much as possible for Joe Q Public (remember Joe the Plumber?) or Charles L. Dodgson' s English Plough Boy.</div>
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<div>The RCV camp has already turned up their nose at this suggestion at least once. I would love to see STAR incorporate it to get an innovative advantage.</div>
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<div>Anybody have connections to STAR?</div>
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<div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my MetroPCS 4G LTE Android Device</div>
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