Of course the initials for MTA-Optional-Conditional should be MTAOC, rather
than what I wrote
in my previous posting.
Also, in my definition of the MTAOC, when I said "x-ballots", I meant "x-only
ballots", a term that I'd
defined above in that posting.
By the way, MTAOC is a 4-slot method, but maybe it could still be implemented
on the voting apparatus that
is now used for voting "Yes", "No", or neither on initiatives.
For MTA, the voter could vote "Top", "Middle", or neither for each candidate.
For MTAOC, it could be the same, except that an unconditional middle rating is
done by marking
both "Middle" and "Top". A conditional "Middle" rating would then be given by
marking only "Middle".
I don't know if that would retain the easy implementability of MTA with
existing voting
apparatus.
Mike Ossipoff
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