2018 Washington 10th CD Straw Poll
Counted (which advocates for Score voting) held a straw poll in the 10th Congressional District of Washington on June 30, 2018, after giving candidates a chance to speak in front of the voters. 38 eligible voters participated.
Ballots included three voting systems: Plurality/FPTP, Approval, and Score (0-5), so that voter behavior on the different types of ballots could be compared.
They published analyses of voter behavior:
- Bullet voting and anti-bullet voting
- Min/Max voting and use of Score's expressiveness
- Subjectivity of scales and approval thresholds
Summary of voter behavior:
- 11% of voters bullet voted (giving the maximum score to one candidate and minimum or blanks to the others).
- 0% of voters anti-voted (giving the minimum score to one candidate and maximum scores to the others).
- 0% of voters min/max voted (approval-style votes, where all candidates get either maximum or minimum scores).
- 42% of voters did not use the full range of scores available.
- Voters did not have the same approval thresholds when converting their score ballots to approval ballots (even with the same score ballots).