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Rated voting
Electoral systems with independent candidate ratings / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Cardinal voting" redirects here. For the voting system used by Cardinals to elect the pope, see Papal conclave § voting.
Rated, evaluative,[1] graded,[1] or cardinal voting systems are a class of voting methods which allow voters to state how strongly they support a candidate,[2] which involves giving each one a grade on a separate scale.[1] Cardinal methods (based on cardinal utility) and ordinal methods (based on ordinal utility) are the two categories of modern voting systems.[2][3][4]
![A theoretical ballot with the instructions "Rate each between negative ten and ten." There are five options, each one with a number corresponding to it. The numbers, from top to bottom, are seven, ten, negative three, zero, and ten.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Rated_voting.png/640px-Rated_voting.png)
![A theoretical ballot with the instructions "Vote for any number of options." Two choices are marked, three are not. There is no difference between the markings.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Approval_ballot.svg/640px-Approval_ballot.svg.png)