[Fyzbo]

I came across this website while reading /.

http://rangevoting.org/

The idea is interesting and it does look like a better system at first glance, but I don't know how it would work in practice.

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 there be an easy way to invalidate ballots ("overvoting") – just to make life easy for fraudsters.

But wait, that's our voting system now!

There's a better way: range voting.

You've all seen Range voting in action as the Olympic scoring system. Judges give the competitors scores and the highest average score wins. Similarly, in an election, voters give the candidates scores, and the one with the highest average wins.