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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by godelski on Friday October 30, 2020 @05:19PM (#24946999)
You have to rank them against one another. 10 candidates, 10 comparisons. 100 candidates, 100 comparisons.

Alternatively cardinal systems scale trivially (you express how much you like an individual candidate -- independently-- not how much you like a candidate -- comparatively -- to another candidate). You can bullet vote a party line if you really want.

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Re:Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in ... by jmholla on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:21PM (#24947780)
That doesn't affect ballot size. You have the same number of candidates with boxes next to their name you put a number in, unless someone is making the implementation more complicated.
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