If you were trying to design the worst way to vote, you might: -
Force voters to say the least possible amount – name just one
candidate, and say nothing about how much you like or dislike
any of the others. - Make it reward voters for not voting for
whom they really want. - Make it operate, over time, in such a
way as to diminish your number of choices to the minimum – only
2 (or 1, meaning no choice at all). - Make it easy for
fraudsters to invalidate ballots ("overvoting"). FIGURE
illustrates a hypothetical ballot on| a score voting machine's
display screen. There's a better way: score voting (also known
as "range voting"). You've all seen score voting in action as
the Olympic scoring system. Judges give the competitors scores
and the highest average score wins. Similarly, in a score voting
election, voters would give the candidates scores, and the one
with the highest average would win. Score voting permits voters
to express their opinions about any number of candidates (not
just one). It eliminates the "