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. 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"). Candidate Your Vote EISENHOWER, Dwig

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.

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