> > ...it is? I don't see how. (Unless you're putting something other than > +1/-1 in each box?) > using the table, one can express A>B, B>C, C>A, which one can't do with a ranked list. For any individual to do so, however, would leave me wondering about that person :) Put another way, it's possible (even likely) that people would introduce inconsistencies into a ballot if they used the table. I can't think of any legitimate, deliberate, way of expressing one's preference in the table that one can't express in a ranked list with the ability to provide for "is equal to" Timothy