[EM] Range Voting - Is adding up the scores really the best way?

[Toby Pereira]

Very simple case - two voters and two candidates. Candidate A get scores of 0/10 
and 10/10. Candidate B gets 5/10 and 5/10. Under normal range voting, it would 
be a draw. But to me, candidate B seems the much fairer choice. Although there's 
only a single winner, we can apply some PR thinking. Either way, 10 "points" 
will be handed out to voters. If candidate A is elected, one voter gets all 10, 
but if B is elected, the points are shared equally.

Normal range voting seems a little simplistic to me in terms of calculating the 
winner. When I developed my own form of proportional range voting, it didn't 
collapse into normal range voting in the single winner case, since the PR 
thinking continued. http://www.tobypereira.co.uk/voting.html

Presumably PRV that's based on proportional approval voting using harmonic 
numbers of non-integers would also not collapse into normal range voting for one 
winner.
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