LETTER TO EDITOR, NEW YORK TIMES in reply to E.Maskin & A.Sen: How Majority Rule Might Have Stopped Donald Trump, NY Times, Thursday 28 April 2016. ========= In "score voting," voters rate all candidates on 0-9 scale; highest average wins. * Scoring your favorite top cannot hurt you. * Voting honestly cannot hurt you (versus not voting). * Voter exaggeration of the two major-party candidates to "top" and "bottom" doesn't preclude third-party victories. * Expresses not merely preferences, but strong & weak ones. * Allows leaving candidates unscored _without_ automatic conversion of their non-scores to "worst." * Successfully ran Venetian empire for centuries. * Simple, fully described rules. * Successful use by kindergarteners. * Always produces a winner; "cyclic tie" impossible. * If Joe wins in both the North and South, then necessarily he wins the combined (N+S) country. * Voters actually find it _more_ comprehensible than present system and it _reduces_ vote errors. * French voters prefer it versus their present voting system. But Maskin & Sen's proposed voting system disobeys every one of those. Warren D. Smith (PhD; former president, Center for Election Science). More information: http://ScoreVoting.net