[EM] Two mathematicians propose new voting method, Majority Judgment

[Ralph Suter]

Two French mathematicians, who say they have spent the last dozen years 
studying voting systems, have proposed a new method they call Majority 
Judgment. In a US presidential election, it would ask voters to judge 
how good or bad a president they believe each candidate would be if 
elected. There would be 6 options:

Great President
Good President
Average President
Poor President
Terrible President
Never Heard of Candidate

Their proposal was posted May 9, 2016 at The Conversation and May 11 at 
Salon.com:

    https://theconversation.com/trump-and-clinton-victorious-proof-that-us-voting-system-doesnt-work-58752
    http://www.salon.com/2016/05/11/two_faces_of_a_rotting_system_partner/

The authors make the following claim, among others:

    "Majority judgment
    <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/majority-judgment> resolves the
    conundrum of Arrow’s theorem: neither the Condorcet nor the Arrow
    paradox can occur.

I'd appreciate any thoughts about their proposal and about how Majority 
Judgment compares to other voting methods, particularly Range Voting.

Thanks,
Ralph Suter
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