10th August 2018, 8:50 AM
Somehow I accidentally posted my reponse as an edit to your's in two different threads ABF. Sorry about that. Anyway:
Everyone already uses systems like that all the time. Movie reviews use 4 star ratings without the need to rank movies against each other on a line. I think you're underestimating the intelligence of people to say a number line they fill in one bubble for on each candidate would be confusing. Of course, having those tending the voting booth help people with it and explain any questions they have would help, and once people do it a few times, well, there you go.
In other news:
Everyone already uses systems like that all the time. Movie reviews use 4 star ratings without the need to rank movies against each other on a line. I think you're underestimating the intelligence of people to say a number line they fill in one bubble for on each candidate would be confusing. Of course, having those tending the voting booth help people with it and explain any questions they have would help, and once people do it a few times, well, there you go.
In other news:
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)