What are the drawbacks of range voting?

It gives a strong advantage to those who exaggerate their preferences by voting either 0 or 100 for all candidates. It's a fallacy to treat this as a drawback. read more

It's a fallacy to treat this as a drawback. For instance, say a strategy-proof voting system elects Bad, whereas score voting elects Good if voters are honest, and Mediocre if some voters are strategic. In that case, score voting would be better regardless of the fact that strategic behavior changed the outcome. read more

Range voting or score voting is an electoral system for single-seat elections, in which voters give each candidate a score, the scores are added, and the candidate with the highest total is elected. It has been described by various other names including evaluative voting, utilitarian voting, the point system, ratings summation, 0-99 voting, average voting, and utility voting. It is a type of cardinal voting electoral system. read more