Score-Distribution-Based Voting System with Feasibility of Plurality-Voted Choice

Voting system as one of the bases of electoral regulations, due to its direct impact on voters’ involvement, plays a drastic role in attracting citizens’ participation in administration of electoral processes. The Islamic Republic of Iran as a religion-republic-based regime has continually administrated elections in different levels of country management after the Islamic revolution. One of the challenges that serially arises in handling varieties of elections in different periods is the problem of invalid or void ballots which causes decrement of valid ballots’ final count, and consequently, degrades the desirability of elections’ statistical outcomes. This paper proposes a score-distribution-based voting system with feasibility of assigning score to “plurality-voted” choice . By allowing arbitrary score distribution among candidates , the proposed voting system provides conditions of fair voting for voters to select according to their favorites, preferences, and priorities. Also, the research results indicates that the feasibility of assigning score to “plurality-voted” option potentially reduces the count of invalid and specially, void ballots, and increases the count of final correct votes