^Baujard, Antoinette; Gavrel, Frédéric; Igersheim, Herrade; Laslier, Jean-François; Lebon, Isabelle. How voters use grade scales in evaluative voting(PDF). European Journal of Political Economy. 2017-09, 55: 14–28 [2021-09-04]. ISSN 0176-2680. doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2017.09.006. (原始内容(PDF)存档于2022-05-12) (英语). A key feature of evaluative voting is a form of independence: the voter can evaluate all the candidates in turn . . . another feature of evaluative voting . . . is that voters can express some degree of preference.
^Riker, William Harrison. Liberalism against populism: A confrontation between the theory of democracy and the theory of social choice. Waveland Pr. 1982: 29–30. ISBN 0881333670. OCLC 316034736(英语). Ordinal utility is a measure of preferences in terms of rank orders—that is, first, second, etc. . . . Cardinal utility is a measure of preferences on a scale of cardinal numbers, such as the scale from zero to one or the scale from one to ten.
^Vasiljev, Sergei. Cardinal voting: The way to escape the social choice impossibility. 2008-04. SSRN 1116545(英语).
^ 7.07.17.2Hillinger, Claude. The case for utilitarian voting. Open Access LMU. 2005-05-01 [2018-05-15]. (原始内容存档于2020-04-25) (英语). Specific UV rules that have been proposed are approval voting, allowing the scores 0, 1; range voting, allowing all numbers in an interval as scores; evaluative voting, allowing the scores −1, 0, 1.
^Hillinger, Claude. On the possibility of democracy and rational collective choice. Rochester, NY. 2004-10-01. SSRN 608821(英语). I favor 'evaluative voting' under which a voter can vote for or against any alternative, or abstain.
^Range Voting. Social Choice and Beyond. [2016-12-10]. (原始内容存档于2016-08-25) (英语). with the winner being the one with the largest point total. Or, alternatively, the average may be computed and the one with the highest average wins
^Score Voting. The Center for Election Science. 2015-05-21 [2016-12-10]. (原始内容存档于2019-01-25) (英语). Simplified forms of score voting automatically give skipped candidates the lowest possible score for the ballot they were skipped. Other forms have those ballots not affect the candidate’s rating at all. Those forms not affecting the candidates rating frequently make use of quotas. Quotas demand a minimum proportion of voters rate that candidate in some way before that candidate is eligible to win.
^Rating scale research. RangeVoting.org. [2018-05-15]. (原始内容存档于2019-05-07) (英语). The present page seems to conclude 0-9 is the best scale.
^Good criteria support range voting. RangeVoting.org. [2018-05-15]. (原始内容存档于2018-05-16) (英语). Definition 1: For us "Range voting" shall mean the following voting method. Each voter provides as her vote, a set of real number scores, each in [0,1], one for each candidate. The candidate with greatest score-sum, is elected.
^Smith, Warren D. Range voting(PDF). 2000-12 [2021-09-04]. (原始内容(PDF)存档于2018-08-20) (英语). The “range voting” system is as follows. In a c-candidate election, you select a vector of c real numbers, each of absolute value ≤1, as your vote. E.g. you could vote (+1, −1, +.3, −.9, +1) in a five-candidate election. The vote-vectors are summed to get a c-vector x and the winner is the i such that xi is maximum.