>What's the problem with just assigning a number 0-10 for every candidate that you care to, and summing up the points? That's Range Voting, and it's my prefere

>What's the problem with just assigning a number 0-10 for every candidate that you care to, and summing up the points? That's Range Voting, and it's my preference, but the main problem is that it's complicated both for the voters, and in implementation. Approval Voting is a simplified form (reducing the range to just 0 or 1 vote per candidate) that has many of the same advantages, but has the benefit that people understand it more easily.