Re: [EM] Range Voting - Is adding up the scores really the best way?

2011-07-27 Thread Juho Laatu
On 27.7.2011, at 22.50, Toby Pereira wrote: > Very simple case - two voters and two candidates. Candidate A get scores of > 0/10 and 10/10. Candidate B gets 5/10 and 5/10. Under normal range voting, it > would be a draw. But to me, candidate B seems the much fairer choice. Different choices and

[EM] Range Voting - Is adding up the scores really the best way?

2011-07-27 Thread Toby Pereira
Very simple case - two voters and two candidates. Candidate A get scores of 0/10 and 10/10. Candidate B gets 5/10 and 5/10. Under normal range voting, it would be a draw. But to me, candidate B seems the much fairer choice. Although there's only a single winner, we can apply some PR thinking.