<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div>Basic Binomial STV is a system that allows both to elect and exclude candidates, by using the Meek surplus transfer computer count both to elect candidates, and also to exclude them, doing away with the "last past the post" elimination when the election surplus transfers run out.</div><div>It means that all abstentions, any where and possibly everywhere, on the ballot must be counted, to evaluate the relative importance of elections and exclusions to the voters. </div><div>An exclusion count may reinforce an election count, if the candidate is both popular and not unpopular with other voters.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, </div><div>Richard Lung. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>On 30 Aug 2023, at 3:49 pm, Colin Champion <<a href="mailto:colin.champion@routemaster.app">colin.champion@routemaster.app</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div>
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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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