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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Ralph Suter recently
proposed approval/disapproval voting, which (as a natural
disapprover) I found attractive.<br>
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Maybe something similar makes sense for ranked voting. You rank as
many candidates as you want, leaving the rest blank if you have no
opinion, or marking an X if you positively dislike them. If there
are only 5 candidates, it's just as easy to rank all 5, but if
there are 10, most of whom you know nothing about, you don't want
to rank the full set in order to indicate your view of a couple of
monsters. So maybe something of this sort would encourage voters
to provide enough information to make ranked voting work on fields
of size 10 or so.<br>
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CJC<br>
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