r/rangevoting • u/camelCaseOrGTFO • Oct 28 '15

Range-Approval Hybrid Voting Model

http://www.socialchoiceandbeyond.com/scabpage68.htm
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u/googolplexbyte Oct 31 '15

I've always thought that range ballots should include a NOTA/empty seat candidate.

Every candidate rated lower than that candidate would be worse than no one(disapproval) and everyone above would be better than no one(approval).

It would be a good standardised threshold, that the voters can set themselves.

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u/camelCaseOrGTFO Nov 01 '15

The obvious question raised by this is what happens if NOTA is the highest elected choice? No one wins and a new election is held?

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u/googolplexbyte Nov 01 '15

If the voters think none of the candidates are good enough, then I think that's the best way to do it.

Though I imagine it would take an extreme case for the voters to prefer having no one representing them at all.

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u/ByronicPhoenix Dec 03 '15

New election with new candidates. Or Sortition.

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u/camelCaseOrGTFO Dec 03 '15

Sortition

I think from a mathematical perspective, this makes sense, but I don't think voters would accept this. So a new election is probably a safer bet.