BFF: asterisk or colon for multipliers?

[carlschroedl]

A lot of prior art uses colons rather than asterisks to indicate a count of the associated ballot (called "multipliers" in the current draft). Should this be embraced?

[endolith]

Specifically:

• https://rangevoting.org/SF07HumanRead.txt
• https://rangevoting.org/DublinNorthSorted.txt
• https://rangevoting.org/JLburl09.txt
• http://www.ericgorr.net/condorcet/
• http://www.cs.angelo.edu/~rlegrand/rbvote/calc.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20050407202015/http://www.eskimo.com:80/~robla/politics/condorcet-front.html
• etc.

[endolith]

There are also many examples that just use spaces:

    49 A>B
    3  B>A
    48 C>B