There's no 'all your points'. They aren't allocated out of a pool. Your first choice gets N pts (for N candidates), period. If you choose no one else, they all get zero from you. If you rank all N, then your first choice still gets N points, and the last guy 1.
You get to vote for whom you want, only for whom you want, and in the order that would prefer.
And... as I said just above, you can vote for a single person just like now, if you want, and treat it as a single choice voting, 'sticking it to' everyone else in the bargain by giving them zero points.
Re: So, the alternate decision is ...
Date: 2004-10-18 09:35 pm (UTC)There's no 'all your points'. They aren't allocated out of a pool. Your first choice gets N pts (for N candidates), period. If you choose no one else, they all get zero from you. If you rank all N, then your first choice still gets N points, and the last guy 1.
You get to vote for whom you want, only for whom you want, and in the order that would prefer.
And... as I said just above, you can vote for a single person just like now, if you want, and treat it as a single choice voting, 'sticking it to' everyone else in the bargain by giving them zero points.