Other ballots ... AV / IRV full ranking.AV / IRV with full (forced) ranking has the spoiler problem and donkey voting. After picking their favourite(s) and facing a list of too many candidates, voters naturally tend to start at the top of the ballot and go down. A vote like "G > D > A > B > C > E > F > H" looks a little suspicious. Where does an honest opinion stop? The eventual winner can claim a majority of the votes. That's nice. But all it really does is give "top of the ballot" candidates more votes than they deserve. To avoid the alphabetically superior opponents from winning this way, you could place the names on the ballot in a random order ... effectively saying that it is acceptable for a RANDOMLY superior candidate to win this way. Another lazy way to prefer everybody on a full ranked ballot is to copy someone else's opinion. This easy out is becoming more and more public, official and acceptable. It makes it far too convenient for a politician and their friends to sell their 'block vote' to people who don't want to think for themselves at the very time when they should. |