Definite Majority Choice: Difference between revisions

A [[Graded Ballot]] ballot implementation would infer the ordinal ranking from the 'grades' given to candidates, and the Approval Cutoff would be determined with a Lowest Passing Grade option. Voters cancould grade their choices from favorite (A+) to least preferred (ungraded), and give some or all of their graded choices a "passing grade" to signify approval.

A voter may give the same grade (rank) to more than one candidate. Ungraded candidates are graded (ranked) below all graded candidates.

Grades assigned to non-passing (disapproved) candidates help determine which of them will win in the event that none ofif the voter's approved candidates winsdo not win.

99% of the time, itthere should not be necessaryno need to change the LPG -- with 9 grade levels from A+ to C-, there is plenty of room to express relative preferences.

But the LPG option allows a voter to move the cutoff higher or lower if sentiment changes before finalizing the ballot, without having to get a new ballot.

In a vote for president, oneOne could compareconsider the LPG to be like Gerald Ford. Anybody better would bemake a good president, and anybody worse would be bad.

Grading candidate X below the LPG gives the voter a chance to say "I don't like X and don't want him to win, but of all the alternatives, he would make the fewestleast changeschange in the wrong direction. I won't give him X a passing grade because I want himX to have as small a mandate as possible." This allows the losing minority to have some say in the outcome of the election, instead of leaving the choice to the strongest core support within the majority faction.