John Taplin wrote: > With the technology known to me in the early 80s I advocated a > square array with candidates as rows and preference for columns > with the voter filling in the intersecting squares as a > "mark-sense" card. I pointed out this would allow indifference at > any level and that it need not be compulsory to put a mark against > each candidate. The voter need only be sure she did not put two > marks in any row. That's what I have in mind, except for the squareness. With a lot of candidates there won't be room for a square array because the ballot probably isn't wide enough. My conjecture is that restricting the number of distinct rank positions won't cause bad results. ---Steve (Steve Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED])
