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One point of Acorn Standard Ballot is to summarize a debate as a Ballot Paper rather than say "dot points" so that one can proceed to the descision making process ASAP.

The speedier Acorn Standard Ballot also allows a meeting to be summarized at intermediate points so that lesser matters can also be dealt with before people become busy with the main debate and ballot.

Everyone is surely experienced with meetings that go on and on and on. Maybe this will help the tedium. Side ballots can include finding good names for things, something best left to a smaller subcomittee to find a range of plausible answers which can be decided on by the whole meeting later on.

The Acorn Standard Ballot that allows this to be done, in the first instance provide ballotting square and labels in a standard format, to ease the workload for the counters and scrutineers.

The author, Acorn W. Smith is intending that the Acorn Standard Ballot support as many as possible of the common tallying systems, from Plurality Voting, to Cummulative Voting, to Approval Voting to Instant Runoff Voting. The choice of system depends of factors that are too subtle to explain here - see vote tallying systems - but IRV is considered the best with the others being less-featured spinoff.

Note the "WW" option inspired by American usages, and the "V" option inspired by Russian usage.

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________ Acorn Standard Ballot 2004A16^2222 Protest Votes Protest Votes can be cast by the following:

DD [___] Not voting at all.

EE [___] Going to vote, obtaintaining ballot paper, but leaving ballot blank.

FF [___] Writing rude words or slogans on ballot paper.

GG [___] Casting vote for extreme or stupid candidate.

HH [___] In Instant Runoff Voting, putting big parties next to last or last.

JJ [___] Fold ballot paper as paper aeroplane.

KK [___] Fold ballot paper as origami.

WW [___] (write-in) ____________ ______________ _____________ ____________

V [___] (void below line)

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Number all the squares "[___]" 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 in order of your preferences.

By default, votes tallied Instant Runoff Voting, aka Preferential Voting.

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Each option/candidate is allow one line of text which might encounter the canditates name plus other key words and phrases that explain their platform. Care may or may not be taken to match words of different options/candiates to make it or not make it easy to spot similarities and different.

For example the prime difference between JJ and KK is "paper plane" v "origami". For example the prime similarity between JJ and KK is "fold paper".

As time of writing, the Author does not know how so make words such as JJ and KK written in variable length fonts line up.