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In this communication, we propose a tentative to set the fundamental problem of measuring process done by a large structure on a microscopic one. We consider the example of voting when an entire society tries to measure globally opinions of all social actors in order to elect a delegate. We present a quantum model to interpret an operational voting system and propose an quantum approach for grading step of Range Voting, developed by M. Balinski and R. Laraki in 2007.
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Dubois, F. (2009). On Voting Process and Quantum Mechanics. In: Bruza, P., Sofge, D., Lawless, W., van Rijsbergen, K., Klusch, M. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5494. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00834-4_17
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