Bernd, sometimes the devil is in the details, and that's certainly the case with voting systems.
> Why should I rank options if there is only a limited number of > options I care about, and the others are just equally bad > choices imho? I feel like we're sort of belaboring a point. If someone voted 1------- does it really seem plausible that they actually thought Option 2 was exactly as bad as Option 5? So if Option 1 were removed from the table, and they personally would pick which remaining option would be chosen, they'd be just as happy with any of Options 2-8? It seems much more likely that they thought this was a way of expressing maximum support for Option 1, and that ranking anything else diluted that support. Cheers, --Barak.
