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I just saw a few footages from the Nevada caucus. First time seeing the real thing (just never paid attention to it before). Gosh, the process is so archaic and slow.
The basic concept of ranked voting is you vote your first and 2nd and 3rd choices. If your first choice is out of the game, then your vote goes to your 2nd choice. If your 2nd choice of out of the game, then your vote goes to your 3rd choice, and so on. The goal is to eventually produce a winner that wins more than 50% of the vote.
I saw people counting heads by hand; people were physically moving around; in case of ties they they were drawing cards to decide. And get this - ace is lowest card (in Nevada!).
Seems to me this whole process can easily be taken care of by one ballot for everyone and computers. I am a tech layman; but I think if I fill out one form ranking my choices, a rather simple computer program can do the tabulation.
.... a rather simple computer program can do the tabulation.
I'm not a programmer and I only say that because I need to know what I need to know. I could write something to do this fairly easily. Calculating it is the easy part, you first need that information in a database or some other computer readable format. If they are not doing this electronically to begin with or the card cannot be read by machine each card would have to be manually input so I'm not so sure it's much of time saver if any.
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