I am against compulsory voting and compulsory full ranking. Not going to vote is the only way left to voters that want to say all candidates are bad, except when a None option is provided (which should always be the case so we could know the level of approbation from the electorate in regard to the result).
Truncation is an appropriate response that allows as much as candidates that want to run without making voters lose their time in useless comparisons in their eye. It allows to maximize both the representation, by giving more choices, and voter social utility because a certain fraction (it depends of every case) find sometime more useful to spend time on someting else than filling a ballot and some other voters don't. Everyone (lazy voter, compelled voter, losing from the start candidate and potential winner) is free to maximize its personal goal within the respect of the freedom of others. If antenna time during the election was provided proportional to official surveys and the election system would be an immune to cloning method (PR for multiple winners), we could finally reach a real democratic process... Steph ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
