Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
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If something like asset voting or delegable proxy is implemented,
people might run who would only expect to get a few votes. Full
rank/approval ballots would not only become impossible, but setting up
a rank system where every candidate must be ranked is ... ridiculous,
unless candidates are all well-known and there are not too many of
them. Limiting candidates is a basically anti-democratic move. So
write-ins, at least, must be possible. And what if the voter prefers
*two* write-ins over all the listed candidates?
I think a good solution would be for elections to have two rounds:
1. A qualifying primary, done entirely with write-in ballots, and
counted using Approval. Candidates with a sufficient number of votes
would advance to...
2. A runoff election, using ranked ballots.
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