This makes voting one step easier than with the 0-99 style Range votes. Some calculations needed still to see/check the relative strength of the preferences. This proposal brings into my mind another intermediate variant Ann--Jill-Jack---John where the dashes "-" represent ones "1" and can be summed up to get the numbers that you used. The dashes maybe look nicer than the ">"s.
Juho Laatu On Oct 26, 2006, at 20:06 , Simmons, Forest wrote: > How about having the voters rank the candidates with the option of > skipping numbers: the more numbers skipped the stronger the > preference. Thus > > 1 Ann, 3 Jill, 4 Jack, 7 John > > would translate to > > Ann>>Jill>Jack>>>John > > Forest > > > > Juho wrote ... > > > Ranked preferences could be derived from range. A=99, B=60, C=50, > D=11 could be read as A>>B>C>>D. The information could be read also > from some "floating point graphical format" (e.g. bars of different > length). In these styles it may not be easy to express preferences of > equal strength (like A>>B and C>>D above). > > One quite easy style would be computer assisted ballot creation in > the style shown below. Lines between the candidates indicate > distance / strength of preference. > ============================================== > Smith > Jones > ----- > Brown > ----- > ----- > <others> > ============================================== > > Juho Laatu > > > > <winmail.dat> > ---- > election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for > list info Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
