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MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:
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Choosing the candidate with the greatest rating sum maximizes social utility
if people rate sincerely.
The resulting method meets FBC and WDSC.
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. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv/RangeVoting.html">http://math.temple.edu/~wds/crv/RangeVoting.html</a><br>
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<td rowspan="2"><font size="+2"><b>Range Voting </b></font></td>
<td><i>"history's first thoroughly accurate and fair</i> </td>
<td rowspan="2"><a href="RExample.html">[example]</a> </td>
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<td><i>way of measuring an electorate's wishes"</i> </td>
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<p>aka the <b>SCORE SYSTEM</b> or <b>0-99 VOTING</b>, to select
winner of an N-candidate election: <br>
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<li>each <a href="MeaningOfVote.html">vote</a> consists of one
numerical score from <a href="Why99.html">0 to 99</a> 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);<br>
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<li>voters may fill entries with <a href="Blanks.html">"X"</a> if
they desire <i>not to express an opinion</i> about that candidate
(e.g. 57,0,X,99);<br>
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<li>a candidate's "total" is the <a href="Averaging.html">average</a>
of all his numeric scores;<br>
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<li>the candidate with the highest total wins. </li>
<li><font size="-1">(<a href="RuleE.html">Only</a> candidates at
least <a href="Why25.html">25%</a> 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.) </font></li>
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Chris Benham<br>
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