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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by madeofpalk on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:06AM (#22235058)
It's not?

Putting numbers 1-5 in boxes isn't intuitive?

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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by ben_w on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:32AM (#22235290)
You’d be surprised. The UK had a referendum on this in 2011, where the scheme was rejected without controversy, and the “no” argument I remember from the time was that this is too complicated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternat...

And yes, I am aware this system is already used in many places.

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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by thomk on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:11AM (#22235104)
No, unfortunately not. You will get people who will put all 1s or a 6 here and there.
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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by madeofpalk on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:55AM (#22235503)
Australia manages to do it... Hell, not saying its great, but in the last election you could vote 1-6 "above the line", or IIRC 1-105 below the line https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_vote/practice/practice-...
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Re:App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequat... by hadrien01 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:24AM (#22235218)
Ranked choice voting is already used by multiple countries with no problem
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