I'm starting to think that an approval cutoff option may be too complicated for a public DMC proposal.
It now seems to me that a graded ballot with C as the lowest passing grade is fairly intuitive and with 8 approved ranks leaves sufficient room for voter expression. But mainly, 16 ranks (0 -- 15) mean that approval can be quickly measured using the most significant of the 4 bits. Any comments? BTW, I tested a simple explanation of DMC (fixed LPG = "C") on my father and he seemed to actually grasp the basic idea. I'll use Russ's "can he still explain it a week later" test and tell you what happens ... Ted -- araucaria dot araucana at gmail dot com ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
