Each of these systems, balanced or not, is not evaluative.
Ranked Voting:
There are an infinite number of ranked voting systems but from the standpoint of voting (i.e. ignoring the issue of who wins election) they are all the same. The voter constructs a list of the candidates, first choosing the one most preferred and followed in order by the second choice, third, and so on. These voting systems would seem to be the furthest thing possible from an evaluative system, requiring not merely a single choice of one candidate, but in fact many such choices, one for each candidate in the list that the voter prepares.
The balanced ranked voting systems differ in that the voter is allowed, for each candidate in the ordered list to specify either support or opposition; in these systems, the list is ordered differently, however, by the voter's perceived importance. The first candidate in the list is the candidate cares most about and the voter may well like or hate the idea of that candidate winning.
These balanced voting systems likewise involve choices and so are not evaluative, but preparing the list may well involve fewer choices than for the associated ranked voting system since any candidates the voter does not know or care about, can be simply skipped over without penalty. Also, it should be emphasized that these balanced systems do not qualify as ranked voting systems.
Each of these systems, balanced or not, is not evaluative.
Approval Voting:
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