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RANGE VOTING selects the winner of an N-candidate election:
(a) Each vote consists of assigning a point value from 0 to 99 to each candidate (for example, 30 points for candidate A, 64 for B etc.) The voter might give her favorite candidate a 99 and her least-favorite zero.
(b) If a voter desires to express no opinion about any particular candidate, she may assign an X instead of a point value, indicating "intentional blank."
(c) A candidate's "total score" is the average of all his non-blank scores (average = sum of points voters cast for that candidate divided by the number of voters who did not vote an X for him).
(d) Candidate with highest average wins.
(e) Candidates with too few non-X votes (even though they might have high scores) are not permitted to win.

Range voting has properties superior to other single-winner voting systems:

1) Simplicity;
2) Encourages voter honesty instead of strategy;
3) Can be done on plurality-type "dumb" voting machines;
4) Unaffected by candidate cloning;
5) Best by test in computer simulation experiments measuring Bayesian regret of different voting systems;
6) Reduces spoiled ballots and 2-party domination.

For more information please go to the Center for Range Voting. This bulletin board is the CRV's communication medium. See also our google group. (Also try clicking "links" or text-searching our archive.)

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Re: Takoma Park election 2009
My memory of what worked on NY lever machines: . There was a lever for each real candidate - you could select any one of them, and your switching was ok -
Posted - Sun Nov 8, 2009 3:09 am
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Open question to IRV advocates
Probably not many IRV advocates on this list, but as I'm increasingly curious about this assertion (primarily by IRV proponents) that score/approval would
Posted - Sun Nov 8, 2009 12:40 am
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Re: Takoma Park election 2009
re all for D.Duck, or split with M.Mouse or other candidates). ... --Yes, and actually, in Florida 2000, a lot of voters both checked GORE *and* wrote-in GORE
Posted - Sat Nov 7, 2009 11:22 pm
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Re: Aspen stops using IRV
... I wonder if they can use range voting for an advisory question?
Posted - Sat Nov 7, 2009 10:44 pm
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Re: ScantegrityII in Takoma Park used IRV
... The turnout for the two groups (US Citizen and non-US Citizens is included in the detailed results on the Takoma Part web site). The turnout in the the
Posted - Sat Nov 7, 2009 8:43 pm
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