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I tried ranked voting, for a non-political end. The goal was to select a slogan. With ranked voting, the lousy slogan won consistently, but nobody liked it. When we tried a straight up-down vote, everyone liked the slogan and it went on to be a success.
Beware alternate voting schemes! You may not like the result, but the person pushing the scheme probably will.

It would be too bad if people dismissed range voting simply because some poster didn't read the article and was part of a group that used ranked voting.