Ordering of Candidates on ballot

[Guest JDStackpole]

RONR has no rule.

Last name alphabetical is the commonest in the US culture.

Do otherwise and folks might get suspicious.

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[Guest H.Wm.Mountcastle]

And, of course, the simplest ballot is a blank piece of paper. Though you still might want to list the nominees on a blackboard (or whiteboard or some such thing) and then you're right back to how to order the list!

I join Mr. Stackpole in sugges"

[Guest Rob Elsman]

You list in the order that they were nominated, just as if the vote were taken by a voice vote. See RONR (10th ed.), p. 157, ll. 5-8. We can discern that the names are not sorted alphabetically by the fact that Seattle is listed before New Orleans in the "