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Range Voting procedure

Each voter may submit a secret ballot which, for each candidate, may indicate one of four choices: Like (+1), Neutral (0), Dislike (-1), or No opinion. The first three choices correspond to numerical scores, but No opinion is treated specially.

1. For each candidate, the count of the number of ballots that voted Like or Neutral is calculated. The result is called the candidate's "support". The support will be used to make sure that candidates that "no one has heard of" can't win.

2. For each candidate, the average of their scores is calculated, leaving out those ballots which marked "No opinion" for that candidate. The result is called the candidate's "average score".

3. The candidate with the highest average score, out of those whose support is at least half of the support of the candidate with the greatest support is declared the winner.