Cardinal voting systems: Difference between revisions

The concept of an approval rating, sometimes just called approval, is often used to count the vote/score totals for each candidate. When the score scale being used only allows for nonnegative scores, then a candidate's approval rating is just the percentage of their number of votes/points divided by the maximally attainable votes/score any candidate can get. The maximally attainable votes/score is whatever total votes/score a candidate would get if all voters theoretically gave them the maximal support/score. So for example, if everyoneevery voter gives a candidate a 5 on a scale from 0 to 10, they'd have a 50% approval rating. The notion of an approval rating makes it easier to see the connection between the vote/score totals in different rated methods, such as [[Approval voting]] and [[Score voting]], and with different score scales.