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Originally Posted by pilotbob
It's sort of the way people vote for president. The usually vote for the major parties because they don't think the Libertarian or Green candidate will win even thought they would prefer if they did. So, they vote for the least of two evils.
My son has suggested ranked voting, which I guess some other countries use in their elections. So, you rank each option so you can list the one your REALLY want as number 1, then your second pref as 2, etc.
Of course, our polling system doesn't allow for such stuff. Perhaps there is a third part voting system that we could use... but, I think that would lower participation unless it could be done inline here and still only allow 1 vote per user without having them log in there too.
As Jon said, I was never against a blind vote, I would have done it, but the forum doesn't do it "yet". However, it never bothered me of the voters enough to manually tally votes or ranks. 
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As I understand it that sort of voting system works by assigning second choice votes of voters whose first choice cannot win straight up to their second choice, perhaps producing a winner that would not of come in first only counting first choice votes, indeed it could produce a winner that was well down the ranking counting only first place votes? Sounds complicated and dubious for use here, with ten possible choices.
I hate to suggest a poll, but what we seem to have here is a group that wants totally blind voting versus those who want to see the poll in progress and may not wish to essentially waste their vote on a first choice if they feel it would be better put to use helping a second choice win? So have a poll on this idea? I do not see that there is any valid argument to be made that either is more fair or moral than the other.