Score voting will increase polarization to levels unseen even in 2020 America, for no practical benefit over approval voting. Score's tactical logic leads to m

Score voting will increase polarization to levels unseen even in 2020 America, for no practical benefit over approval voting. Score's tactical logic leads to most voters giving the extreme scores to every candidate, and psychology means all these voters will end up justifying it to themselves - leading to extreme polarization when the losing side is convinced the winner has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The last presidential term showed what happens than, now repeat that for all levels of government all the time. Worst of all, some very few people will actually give partial scores. Why is that bad? Well, what's the most common way to calculate scores today? There are various single-issue and ideological organizations which put out scores measuring representatives. Just about all these organizations represent absolutist POVs regarding their single issue or ideology (e.g. the NRA has a score for every representative). So to get a high score, representatives are pushed to extremes.