Re range=score voting. In a France 2007 range & approval voting exit poll study, paper by them in English had claimed 83.5% said "yes" to "does the principle of approval voting seem clear to you?" while 89.2% said yes for same question about range(0,1,2) voting.
Looking at their French ultra-long paper http://rangevoting.org/FrenchApproval2007long.pdf Question 5 & 6 in the questionnaire on p.222 addressed how clear the voter found score voting & approval voting respectively, but you are warned that when they actually discuss the resulting answers on pages 257-259 they call them Q6 and Q7. Anyhow, the results were VERDICT.............................SCORE VOTING.........APPROVAL yes, clear.....................................78.6%.......................66.9% slightly clear (un peu).....................10.6.........................16.6 slightly unclear (plutot non)..............3.3............................6.5 no, unclear......................................6.1...........................7.9 (no opinion)......................................1.5...........................2.0 They were not asked about their race, age, education level, first language. ---- Comparing with instant runoff based on this exit poll in San Francisco: http://archive.fairvote.org/media/irv/SFSU-PRIRCVFinalReport.pdf = http://RangeVoting.org/SFSU-PRIRCVFinalReport.pdf Table 9. Overall Understanding of RCV (N = 1633) Understood it perfectly well........51.6% Understood it fairly well.............35.6% Did not understand it entirely......9.9% Did not understand it at all.........3.0% But for "less than HS" education level 23.8% "did not understand entirely or did not understand at all" and 21.9% for Chinese as 1st language, which were the two worst numbers. Best was Spanish as 1st language (.0%) and post-grad education (10.0%). ------- SUMMARY: So combining both exit poll studies SCORE VOTING no or slight understanding: 7.6% APPROVAL VOTING....................................9.9% RANKED CHOICE.......................................12.9% Score voting understanding by everybody was better than even post-grad educated San Franciscans' understanding of RCV. -- Warren D. Smith http://RangeVoting.org <-- add your endorsement (by clicking "endorse" as 1st step) ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
