Re: The trouble with triples. (Was Three ballot...

Right you are. I realized it after I sent the email. If someone is twisting my arm to vote for Alex and I want to vote for Bob, I can vote for Bob on ballots 1 & 2 and vote the double-bubble ballot for Alex and Carol. The double-ballot ballot doesn't have the significance I thought it did.

BTW -- Your write-up is excellent.

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> >Cc: Jerry Lobdill , Kurt Hyde 
> >Subject: Re: [OVC-discuss] The trouble with triples. (Was Three ballot... 
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> >Thank you both Charlie and Jerry, 
> > 
> >Charlie, you're right. The 3 ballots do not need to be cast together. It says 
> they are split in Sec 3.4. Of course, all 3 must be cast and be unaltered. 
> > 
> >I have below a sample election with 4 voters and a manual recount of the paper 
> ballots. Note how the vote that counts must be paired with another vote on the 
> same ballot. According Section 3.3, the voter "may choose arbitrarily which two 
> bubbles in that row to fill in." There might a hole that allows for some degree 
> of verification for chain voting. 
> 
> There defintely is. I mention this in the write-up I sent. 
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