[EM] "equal sum" ratings ?

[Chris Benham]

  Brian,
I  found this at your site:

> Rated Vote, equal sum
> In raw Rated Vote, more opinionated voters get more say. While that 
> maximizes the happiness measurement of this simulation, maybe it's not 
> fail. So, counterweight all votes such that the sum of positive or 
> negative votes cast (absolute value) by a voter is 1.0.


This is weird and unsound. In  Cardinal Ratings (aka Range Voting), in 
which voters all score the candidates on some scale and
then the scores are simply added-up and the candidate with the highest 
total wins, there is no real significance to "positive" versus
"negative" votes.  Scoring a candidate on a scale of  -1 to 1 is exactly 
the same thing  as scoring on a scale of   0 to 2, or  7 to 9.

Chris Benham

http://www.electionmethods.org/Cardinal.htm

http://bolson.org/voting/essay.html
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