Range voting works on the principal of allowing voters to rate as many or as few candidates as they want on a sliding scale.

This method is designed to give voters the option of splitting their vote and showing their level of preference of a subset of candidates over another.

Once voting ends, votes are tallied using the summing method (addition of all votes) to generate a final score for a candidate.

An example of range voting is available in the next section, Section 1.2, “Range Voting Example”