range voting
Range voting Warren D. Smith
Range voting is a single-winner voting system in which each vote consists of one numerical score from 0 to U awarded to each candidate, where U is some positive number. In single-digit range voting U is 9, while two-digit range voting has U=99. (One could also consider permitting the interval to be, e.g. .) The candidate with the highest average score wins. In a common variant, “X” scores also are permitted for candidates (meaning:“I wish to express no opinion about this candidate”). For example (46,0,32,99) could be one vote in a 4-candidate two-digit range voting election; advise 99/0 for best/worst.
Approval voting [1] is the degenerate form of range voting in which there are only two allowed scores: 0 and 1.
References
- 1 S.J. Brams & P. Fishburn: Approval voting, Birkhauser 1983.
| Title | range voting |
|---|---|
| Canonical name | RangeVoting |
| Date of creation | 2013-03-22 16:10:00 |
| Last modified on | 2013-03-22 16:10:00 |
| Owner | Mathprof (13753) |
| Last modified by | Mathprof (13753) |
| Numerical id | 51 |
| Author | Mathprof (13753) |
| Entry type | Topic |
| Classification | msc 91F10 |
| Defines | approval voting |
| Defines | single-digit range voting |
| Defines | two-digit range voting |