[cab-discuss] Draft ballot?

[John Plocher]

Stephen Hahn wrote:
  You may present a list of
>>>   the entire slate, or a subset thereof.  (The list is presented in a
>>>   pre-selected random order.)
>>>
>>>   1 - J. Jones (jjones)
>>>   2 - S. Smith (ssmith)
>>>   ...
>> It maybe worth explicitly stating how candidates not listed here are viewed 
>>  in the order of preference (all equally at the very lowest level, I 
>> assume, but...)
> 
>   Sorry, I'm a bit slow today:  are you asking about adding some
>   clarification (or additional help text) to explain how candidates
>   omitted from a submitted ballot are treated?  Or something about the
>   displayed list or the balloting prompt?
> 
>   - Stephen
> 



What is the difference between
   A) a complete ordered list of all candidates, and
   B) a partial list
when seen from the ballot counting perspective for candidates
not on "B".

In particular, in a strict STV scenario, an "A" vote impacts every
candidate's position, while a "B" vote does nothing for candidates
who are not mentioned.

Also, I would want to make sure that there are statistical checks in
the ballot counting routines to detect whether or not the tally aligns
with the random presentation order, to make sure we can tell if a
significant number of people simply copy/pasted the list.

I'm not sure what we would do if it turned out that way, but I think
we need this to understand and validate the voting process itself.

   -John