[EM] "equal sum" ratings ?

[Bart Ingles]

This sounds equivalent to Cumulative voting, unless I misread it.


> Chris Benham wrote:
> 
> 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