Chris: Maybe something technical like the voter can fill out a "ballot" at home, take it to the polling booth where a machine scans it and copys it and then prints out an official ballot and the voter's receipt.
We have had vote by mail here in Oregon for about ten years, and so far no regrets. Chris: Truncation should be allowed, so no-one has to "fill out rankings" if they don't want to. Total agreement there. My suggestion is to try to adapt an idea from information theory: when designing a system for conveying information efficiently, give the shortest code words to the most likely messages. Perhaps some EM aficionado can surprise us with an ingenious idea along these lines. Forest ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
