I quickly read the article. Here are some observations.

- Term "Bucklin system" has not been defined. I can guess that it probably 
refers to Bucklin style stepwise addition of new approvals, but that may not be 
as obvious to all readers. If there is no definition of "Bucklin system", maybe 
one could say "As in Bucklin" instead of "As with any Bucklin system".

- Sentence "if there are more than one with a majority, the "B" votes are 
removed and the highest sub-majority wins" is ambigious in the sense that it is 
not clear if "highest sub-majority" refers to all candidates or to candidates 
that had majority after adding the "B" votes.

- It is not quite clear what happens and if it is possible that there is no 
majority after the "F" votes have been counted.

- The grades could be letters or numbers, but they could also be e.g. columns 
without any letter or number. This part of text discusses what the ballots 
might look like. I'm not sure if ballot different ballot formats should be seen 
as an essential part of the method definition, or if the method should be 
defined abstractly without referring to what the actual ballots might look 
like. I tend to define the methods abstractly without assuming anything on the 
ballots, and then discuss possible ballot formats as a separate topic, but I'm 
not saying that's the only and best approach. The current text is thus ok. I 
just first read the grades of the definition as abstract grades, not as 
definitions on what would be written in the ballots.

- The linked definition of "evaluatve" says that ranked systems can not give 
same ratings to two candidates. I think that's confusing and wrong.

Juho


On 18.6.2013, at 23.44, Jameson Quinn wrote:

> http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Majority_Approval_Voting
> 
> Please help build up the article and work on the clearest consensus wording. 
> This article is all my own voice so far; my goal is for it not to be.
> 
> Jameson
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