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An arguable disadvantage of full range voting is that it overweights people who vote binary 0/100 and underweights people who vote 80-100. Since the former is almost always strategically advantaged, it seems fairer to just cut out the middle.

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this is a zero sum fallacy. social choice is not zero sum. voters who use intermediate scores donate more utility to society than they give up by not being strategically normalized, leading to an increase in net utility. with enough honest voters, even the "naive suckers" are better off than they would have been under a normalized approval-style ballot. https://www.rangevoting.org/ShExpRes

also see the "no math skills" argument.

https://www.rangevoting.org/RVstrat6

The very simple fix is there is to auto-scale everyone's scores into weights (percentages that add to 100).

That's a horrible idea that reintroduces spoiler effects.

yep.

https://www.rangevoting.org/RVstrat6

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