A simple fully-worked example of a small range-voting election

There are three candidates and nine voters.
Candidates➧ Amy Bob Cal
1st voter: 99 77 0
2nd voter: 98 98 X
3rd voter: 87 0 71
4th voter: 99 1 98
5th voter: 52 99 X
6th voter: 26 98 5
7th voter: 10 96 X
8th voter: 0 70 99
9th voter: 0 1 99
sum: 441 540 372
average: 49 60 62

(The X's denote "intentionally left blank" by that voter to denote the fact he wishes to express ignorance/no opinion about Cal and wants to leave the decision about his score to other, more knowledgeable voters.)

Procedure: compute Amy's, Bob's, and Cal's sums, then compute their averages 441/9=49, 540/9=60, and 372/6=62. Because Cal has the highest average, he wins.

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