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.)