On 18.10.2011, at 16.26, Andrew Myers wrote:
> To collect this information, all you have to do is introduce a choice
> "approved" and let voters rank relative to that choice.
How about this practical ballot format:
(BEST) APPROVED NOT APPROVED (WORST)
Andrew A: O O O O x O O O | O O O O O O O O
Bertha B: x O O O O O O O | O O O O O O O O
Carlos C: O O O O O O O O | O x O O O O O O
One could use also terms PROMOTED and NOT PROMOTED if one wants to give the
ballot more Approval strategy flavour (instead of sincere approval flavour).
The APPROVED part could be painted green and the NOT APPROVED part red.
Otherwise this is just a ballot that is easy and quick to fill (also when there
are 20 candidates), and that contains many enough columns so that the voter can
in most cases indicate as many ranks as he wants.
Voters should also understand that unmarked candidates are considered WORST.
If there are parties, all candidates of each party should be listed next to
each others and maybe grouped together somehow to make voting (and especially
ranking) easier.
The point of this mail is to claim that this kind of ballots are still quite
understandable and easy enough to be filled by voters that have no particular
interest in complex election methods. I just proposed one method that requires
explicit approvals, so I wanted to demonstrate that explicit approvals are
feasible in practical elections.
Juho
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