Comment/Wish 3: Additional "Delegate" attribute associated with a Selection element

[David-Rosenberg@earthlink.net]

Comment/Wish 3: Additional "Delegate" attribute associated with a
Selection element

In the 440-castvote (and other documents reflecting values from 440s),
the Selection element has an optional attribute named "Value" (and
depending on the resolution of some of my earlier comments, perhaps a
"Rating" attribute and/or an "Approved" attribute).

There is a variation of other voting methods called DYN (for
"Delegable Yes/No") which allows a voter to express both a ranking or
rating or approval/disapproval or awarding of points (depending on the
base voting method) to some of the Candidates and to delegate a
"trusted candidate" to supply the ranking or rating or
approval/disapproval or number of points awarded to any Candidates for
whom the voter didn't explicitly do that. To accommodate such an
expression of the voter's delegation of a Candidate, it is necessary
to add another (optional) attribute to the Selection element in the
440-castvote (and other documents reflecting values from 440s). The
new optional attribute (which might be named "Delegate") would not
take a value (it either would be present or not).

A proposed description of the "Delegate" attribute would be:
Delegate: An optional attribute which, if present, indicates that the
voter has selected this Candidate as his Delegate to supply the
ranking or rating or approval/disapproval or number of points awarded
(depending on the voting method) to any Candidates for whom the voter
didn't explicitly specify a ranking or rating or approval/disapproval
or number of points awarded.