[EM] ranked preferences

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 04:38 PM 10/26/2006, Juho wrote:
>This makes voting one step easier than with the 0-99 style Range
>votes.

Range should be considered as a general method where votes are values 
which will be summed. Limiting Range to 0-99 Range (Range 100 because 
there are 100 discreet values possible as a vote) is, I think, quite 
premature. Range 3, with choices of -1, 0, and +1, might give 90% of 
the Range buck. Or some number less than 100.

Indeed, Approval Voting, which is Range 2, might gain most of the 
improvement. And it certainly would be easy to implement. Just stop 
one of the current injustices: tossing the votes of people who 
overvote. Just count the votes!