Why stop there? The fewer the levels, the simpler the ballot, and the more meaningful each distinction.
Three levels is just enough for Favorite, Compromise, and Disapproved, the minimum required for solving the spoiler problem without erasing the distinction between Favorite and Compromise. This turns out to be an important psychological distinction, the main reason that most IRVists believe that IRV solves the spoiler problem better than Approval does. Forest On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Elisabeth Varin/Stephane Rouillon wrote: > Why just stop there? > 3-level approval is composed of > preferred, acceptable, disapproved > This can easily be matched to a preferential truncated ballot: > P1 A2 (and D truncated to manifest my desapproval) > > What if there is more than 3 candidates and I would like > to express my full opinion: > So it generalizes to: > P1 Q2 A3 B4 (and D and E truncated to...) > I rank all of my approved candidates. ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
