"Anyone But…" — every candidate at 5 except the one¶
Fives across the board, one row left blank. A ballot with a single, emphatic message: not that one.
← One of thirteen voting styles. Every style is legal and counted; this page is what this one means, when it fits, and what it trades away.
What this ballot says¶
"Anyone but Blake." Four candidates at the maximum, Blake at 0. This voter isn't choosing a champion — they're drawing a line, and the ballot lets them draw it at full strength.
When it fits¶
- One candidate is, to you, disqualifying — and stopping them matters more than sorting the alternatives.
- Choose-one ballots serve this opinion terribly (you must guess which opponent can win); a scored ballot serves it perfectly — back all of them at once, no guessing.
The trade-off, honestly¶
Against Blake, this ballot is maximal: every rival gets full scoring help, and in any Blake-versus-anyone runoff, your whole vote lands on the anyone. The cost cuts the other way: if Blake misses the final — partly thanks to ballots like yours — the runoff is between two of your identical 5s, and yours is an Equal Support ballot with no say between them. You also boosted candidates you may only tepidly accept on equal footing with ones you genuinely like. If you can feel any daylight between the acceptables, score it — a 5-4-4-3 "anyone but" keeps all the stopping power and adds a voice in the aftermath.
This exact style in a real election¶
In the runnable style-gallery election, the anyone-but row is 5,5,0,5,5,5 — anyone but Chris. It worked: Chris finished dead last with zero points. And then the finalists were two of the ballot's own 5s, so it watched the final as Equal Support — the exact aftermath scenario above, caught live.