[EM] Naive question about Range Voting -- why 0-99 and not 0-100?

[Michael Poole]

Monkey Puzzle writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> Is there any reason to not allow range voting with scores between 0
> and 100?  If the intent is to allow a full range of voter expression,
> why not go the extra point?  I thought the whole idea was to avoid
> imposing a structural restriction on the voters.

Is there any reason *to* allow voting with a score of 100?

Emotionally, people might want to give some candidate(s) a round
scores, but it provides only one additional level of granularity.  The
largest differences between expressible scores are around the midpoint
of the range.  These are unlikely to be either relevant or imporant.

Restricting the range to two digits makes ballots easier and may
encourage voters to put thought into scores.

Michael Poole