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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 2058509" data-attributes="member: 1264">Actually, we're talking about how the voters pick the winner (and runner-up) out of the 5 nominees pre-selected by the judges, since that has been the most problematic phase of the process.In the single-winner case (which is what we are talking about here), STV is essentially equivalent to Instant Runoff / Alternative Vote, which is why I didn't bother making a distinction.I'm talking about standard single-winner Approval Voting (see e.g. Brams and Fishburn, l983, <a href="http://approvalvoting.org/" target="_blank">Citizens for Approval Voting</a>, or the <a href="http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/approvalvote/center.html" target="_blank">Approval Voting Home Page</a>)Implementation is dead easy: just put a checkbox next to each candidate, each voter can check off as many candidate as he/she likes, and the candidate with the highest number of votes wins.Approval Voting shares many of the beneficial properties of Alternative Vote (IRV, Preferential Voting, single-winner STV, whatever <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) and has some additional nice features, but is much easier to implement and therefore often more readily accepted by voters. In our particular case, it also has an easier time dealing with the many "don't know" votes.Nice illustration of what's wrong with Borda Count, Fusangite, except for the fact that we weren't using Borda Count last year (and the few people suggesting it in the voting discussion thread last year got rapidly shouted down <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />). PS: Just discovered that Wikipedia has a truly awesome set of pages on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system#Single_Winner_Systems" target="_blank">voting methods</a>. Check them out! For your convenience: last year's voting method for trhe Ennies was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_voting" target="_blank">Range Voting</a>, with a range of 1-10 (0-10?). The main proposed alternatives have been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count" target="_blank">Borda Count</a> (boo, hiss), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" target="_blank">Instant Runoff Voting</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting" target="_blank">Approval Voting</a>. Either of the latter two would be a big improvement over Range Voting.</blockquote>

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