Editing Score voting (section)

==== Historical ====
A crude form of score voting was used in some elections in ancient [[Sparta]], by measuring how loudly the crowd shouted for different candidates.<ref>James S. Fishkin: The Voice of the People: Public Opinion & Democracy, Yale University Press 1995</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1= Girard |first1=C. |chapter= Going from Theory to Practice: The Mixed Success of Approval Voting | title=Handbook on Approval Voting |pages=15–17 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookonapprov00lasl | url-access=limited | date=2010 |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg | isbn=9783642028380 | editor-last=Laslier|editor-first=Jean-François| editor-last2=Sanver | editor-first2=M. Remzi | series=Studies in Choice and Welfare|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-02839-7_3}}</ref><ref name="spartashout">{{cite news |url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406E7DB163FF931A35755C0A9679C8B63&sec=technology&spon=&pagewanted=2 |title = Adding Up the Costs of Cyberdemocracy |access-date = 2009-10-03 |newspaper = New York Times |first = Alexander |last = Stille |date = 2001-06-02 }}</ref> This has a modern-day analog of using [[Clap-o-meter|clapometers]] in some television shows and the judging processes of some athletic competitions.

Beginning in the 13th century, the [[Republic of Venice]] elected the [[Doge of Venice]] using a multi-stage process with multiple rounds of score voting. This may have contributed to the Republic's longevity, being partly responsible for its status as the longest-lived [[democracy]] in world history.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lines |first=Marji |year=1986 |title=Approval Voting and Strategy Analysis: A Venetian Example |journal=Theory and Decision |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=155–172 |doi=10.1007/BF00135090 |s2cid=121512308}}</ref><ref>{{cite conference |last1=Mowbray |first1=Miranda |last2=Gollmann |first2=Dieter |date=July 2007 |title=Electing the Doge of Venice: analysis of a 13th Century protocol |url=http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-28R1.pdf |conference=IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium |location=Venice, Italy |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-28R1.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> Score voting was used in [[Greece|Greek]] legislative elections beginning in 1864, during which time it had a [[Multi-party system|many-party system]]; it was replaced with [[party-list proportional representation]] in 1923.<ref name="mavrogordatos">{{Cite book |last=Mavrogordatos |first=George Th. |url=http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_MbSifRqxM1EC |title=Stillborn Republic: Social Coalitions and Party Strategies in Greece 1922{{endash}}1936 |date=1983 |publisher=University of California Press |pages=351–352 |language=en}}</ref>

According to Steven J. Brams, approval was used for some elections in 19th century England.<ref>{{cite speech |url=http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/brams/normative_turn.pdf |title=The Normative Turn in Public Choice |page=4 |date=April 1, 2006 |access-date=May 8, 2010 |first=Steven J. |last=Brams |event=Presidential Address to Public Choice Society |location=New Orleans, Louisiana |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531093534/http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/brams/normative_turn.pdf |archive-date=May 31, 2010}}</ref>