Rated, evaluative, graded, or cardinal voting systems are a class of voting methods which allow voters to state how strongly they support a candidate...

rank-based voting systems are vulnerable to the spoiler effect. However, the frequency and severity of spoiler effects depends substantially on the voting method...

lesser-evil voting or a strategy called "decapitation" (removing the "head" off a ballot). Most rated voting systems, including score voting, satisfy the...

Preferential voting or preference voting (PV) may refer to different election systems or groups of election systems: Any electoral system which allows...

from 0 to 10). Ranked vote systems produce more information than X voting systems such as first-past-the-post voting. Rated voting systems produce more...

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Score voting, sometimes called range voting, is an electoral system for single-seat elections. Voters give each candidate a numerical score, and the candidate...

Strategic or tactical voting is voting in consideration of possible ballots cast by other voters in order to maximize one's satisfaction with the election's...

Quadratic voting is a rated voting method procedure where voters express the degree of their preferences. By doing so, quadratic voting seeks to address...

Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a winner-takes-all multi-round elimination voting system [needs context] that uses ranked voting to simulate a series of...

ways to compare voting systems: Metrics of voter satisfaction, either through simulation or survey. Adherence to logical criteria. Voting methods can be...

on the assumption of ranked voting, and is not applicable to rated voting systems. As a result, systems like score voting and graduated majority judgment...

election. Most rated voting systems (including approval voting and score voting) satisfy the favorite betrayal criterion, rendering vote-pairing fully...

method, beatpath winner, path voting, and path winner. Smith Score is a rated voting method which elects the Score voting winner from the Smith set. Ranked...

strength of different voters' preferences (e.g. cardinal utility or rated voting). Condorcet's paradox was first discovered by Spanish philosopher and...

Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election....

common rated voting methods (including approval, highest medians, and score). Perversity occurs in instant-runoff voting, the single transferable vote, and...

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Methods like Condorcet voting, rated voting, and the Borda count do not exhibit such effects. Methods like anti-plurality voting and Coombs' method have...

presence of this societal intransitivity is the voting paradox. Regardless of the voting method and the actual votes, there are only three cases to consider:...

publication. If rated voting is allowed, a wide variety of rules satisfy May's conditions, including score voting or highest median voting rules. Arrow's...

Ordinal (or ranked voting) functions only use ordinal information, i.e. whether one choice is better than another. Cardinal (or rated voting) functions also...

Electronic voting by country varies and may include voting machines in polling places, centralized tallying of paper ballots, and internet voting. Many countries...

voting (often called ranked-choice in the United States), First-past-the-post voting, and the two-round system. Most rated systems, like score voting...

Postal voting in the United States, also referred to as mail-in voting or vote by mail, is a form of absentee ballot in the United States. A ballot is...

electronic voting machines. Traditionally, a voting machine has been defined by its mechanism, and whether the system tallies votes at each voting location...

ranked pairs, Kemeny–Young, and Schulze. Most rated voting systems, including approval and score voting, satisfy the criterion as well. Best-is-worst...

since the Schulze method is not a dictatorship and is a ranked voting system (not rated), Arrow's Theorem implies it fails independence of irrelevant alternatives...

to be a hybrid between (rated) score voting and (ranked) instant runoff voting. The first movement to implement STAR voting was centered in Oregon, with...

ranked-choice voting and primary elections. One study showed that approval would not have chosen the same two winners as plurality voting (Chirac and Le...