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Or just put in a number in a single column boxes like in Australia or Ireland.

• erentz 8y ago
  And same in NZ where they’re used in local elections.
• magduf 8y ago
  >Or just put in a number in a single column boxes like in Australia or Ireland. What do you do when some moron voter can't count and reuses the same number, or skips a number? This kind of voting scheme seems like it would much too complicated and confusing to the average American voter.
  • Frondo 8y ago
    Throw the ballot out. People mis-fill ballots now. People will always mis-fill ballots. The column of numbers thing seems extremely intuitive and wouldn't baffle a significant number of American voters; certainly it wouldn't lead to hanging-chad type situations.
  • dragonwriter 8y ago
    > What do you do when some moron voter can't count and reuses the same number, or skips a number? Skipping is no problem. If you want, it's fairly trivial to modify IRV to allow equal preferences.