The science occurs when different voting systems are considered: the electoral college vs majority rule vs approval voting vs rank voting. (realclimate.org)
There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants. (politics.stackexchange.com)
What you stated seems to merely argue that range voting should not be used at all, and have approval voting instead, 100 % of the time. (politics.stackexchange.com)