ternary operator vote

[Bjarke Dahl Ebert]

"Andrew Koenig" <ark at research.att.com> wrote in message
news:yu99vfzqfq0m.fsf at europa.research.att.com...

> Bengt> +1 if you allow the votes to be from {-1, -0, +0, +1} with
> Bengt> abstention as 0.
>
> Please read http://www.electionmethods.org/approved.htm which, among
> other things, explains why voting "yes" or "no" for each of the
> alternatives is better than allowing a continuum of values.

If the election is performed online, then maybe the best method would be
approval voting with the option to change one's vote as the election
progresses (in order to better "draw the line between your approved and
disapproved candidates", in the wording of the article.)

How about a "Wiki Election<tm>"? Each voter could put his/her initials under
each approved candidate.
It would be possible to cheat, but of course true Pythonistas don't cheat
;-)

Bjarke