Sam Hartman dijo [Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 06:12:31AM -0400]: > I'd support revising the instructions to recommend that voters rank all > options on the ballot. > > I don't support mandating it. > If someone doesn't rank an option I'd rather accept a ballot than reject > it. > If someone wrote a patch to warn people if they sent in a not fully > ranked ballot, I'd also support that. > I just prefer to accept as many votes as we can rather than > disenfranchising people. > But I agree that fully ranking the ballot is likely to avoid surprises.
I have always understood our provided instructions as a way to make it impossible not to fully rank -- Only that "-" is the highest valid digit. For an eight options ballot, [1--2----] is exactly equivalent to [18828888] (which, yes, is the same as [13323333]) and [4321657-] is exactly equivalent to [43216578]. I would not like to remove the expressive option of stating '-' as a synonym to "below all other options".
