I did not participate to this discussion because I knew you would end up toward truncated preferential ballots.
This is what I use and this is what Demorep1 recommended in the 4th (yes the fourth, go check!) message of the election-methods-list. Apparently he had a couple of years in advance not only on me... First you tell the voters to split the candidates in two categories: acceptable (approved) and unacceptable (disapproved). Then you order all approved candidates according to your preferences. You gather the most information like this, and after it is just a matter of treatment... Steph. PS: Demorep1 represents the information differently than I I use: A1, B2, C3 or A, B, C He uses something like A1(yes) B2(yes) C3(yes) | D4(no) E5(no) I believe ordering dismissed candidates is useless. ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
