[EM] Steph: Your rating method

[Chris Benham]

MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:

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>Choosing the candidate with the greatest rating sum maximizes social utility 
>if people rate sincerely.
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>The resulting method meets FBC and WDSC.
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>That method is called Range Voting (RV). We used to call it Cardinal Ratings 
>(CR).
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According to RangeVoting.org,  Range Voting is a modified form of   
Average Rating. 

http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv/RangeVoting.html

> *Range Voting * 	/"history's first thoroughly accurate and fair/ 
> [example] <RExample.html>
> /way of measuring an electorate's wishes"/
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> aka the *SCORE SYSTEM* or *0-99 VOTING*, to select winner of an 
> N-candidate election:
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>    1. each vote <MeaningOfVote.html> consists of one numerical score
>       from 0 to 99 <Why99.html> awarded to each candidate (for example
>       57,0,34,99 could be one vote in a 4-candidate election; advise
>       99/0 for best/worst);
>    2. voters may fill entries with "X" <Blanks.html> if they desire
>       /not to express an opinion/ about that candidate (e.g. 57,0,X,99);
>    3. a candidate's "total" is the average <Averaging.html> of all his
>       numeric scores;
>    4. the candidate with the highest total wins.
>    5. (Only <RuleE.html> candidates at least 25% <Why25.html> of whose
>       scores are numeric are allowed to win; except if at most one
>       candidate gets above 25% non-Xs, then any candidate can win.)
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Chris  Benham
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