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    Douglas J.; Behind the Ballot Box: A Citizen's Guide to Voting Systems, p. 120 ISBN 0275965864 Data related to Comparison of voting rules at Wikidata...
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    median voting rules are a class of graded voting rules where the candidate with the highest median rating is elected. The various highest median rules differ...
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    Phragmén's voting rules are rules for multiwinner voting. They allow voters to vote for individual candidates rather than parties, but still guarantee...
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    Electoral system (redirect from Voting rule)
    informal organisations. These rules govern all aspects of the voting process: when elections occur, who is allowed to vote, who can stand as a candidate...
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    These rules are often used in elections with more than two candidates. Such rules elect the candidate with the most votes after applying some voting procedure...
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    Rated, evaluative, graded, or cardinal voting rules are a class of voting methods that allow voters to state how strongly they support a candidate, by...
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    the case of a cycle—Condorcet methods differ on which other criteria they satisfy. The procedure given in Robert's Rules of Order for voting on motions...
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    Ranked voting is any voting system that uses voters' rankings of candidates to choose a single winner or multiple winners. More formally, a ranked vote system...
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    Preliminary version in Voting Matters, 17:9-19, 2003. Douglas R. Woodall, Properties of Preferential Election Rules, Voting Matters, issue 3, pages 8–15...
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    Score voting, sometimes called range voting, is an electoral system for single-seat elections. Voters give each candidate a numerical score, and the candidate...
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    voting systems require different levels of support to be elected. Plurality voting (First-past-the-post voting) elects the candidate with more votes than...
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    Round-robin, paired comparison, or tournament voting methods, are a set of ranked voting systems that choose winners by comparing every pair of candidates one-on-one...
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    Proxy voting is a form of voting whereby a member of a decision-making body may delegate their voting power to a representative, to enable a vote in absence...
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    induction winner in Stackelberg voting games.[clarification needed] Let r be a voting rule: a function that takes as input a list of n ranked ballots, representing...
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    results of an election simply by participating. Voting rules that are not affected by spoilers are said to be spoilerproof. The frequency and severity of spoiler...
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    ranked-vote systems. Unlike the contingent vote, other ranked-vote systems – such as single transferable voting (STV), instant-runoff voting (IRV), Coombs'...
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    is a voting system criterion applicable to voting rules over ordinal preferences required that if only one candidate is ranked first by over 50% of voters...
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    of Preferential Election Rules". Voting Matters (3). Henry R. Droop. "On Methods of Electing Representatives," Journal of the Statistical Society of London...
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    thought of as a variant of block voting. Under both cumulative voting and block voting, a voter casts multiple votes but in the case of cumulative voting, can...
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    Weighted voting are voting rules that grant some voters a greater influence than others (which contrasts with rules that assign every voter an equal vote). Examples...
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    plurality rule and where each voter casts just one vote in a multi-seat district is known as single non-transferable voting. Plurality voting is widely...
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    single-member plurality voting (SMP) and block voting. PR systems also are more resistant to gerrymandering and other forms of manipulation. Some PR systems...
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    Plurality voting Instant-runoff voting Borda count Approval Voting Coombs' rule Bucklin voting (and the closely related median voting) Score Voting With plurality...
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    Quadratic voting (QV) is a voting system that encourages voters to express their true relative intensity of preference (utility) between multiple options...
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    Approval voting is a single-winner rated voting system where voters can approve of all the candidates as they like instead of choosing one. The method...
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    Bucklin voting is a class of voting methods that can be used for single-member and multi-member districts. As in highest median rules like the majority...
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    are rules based on other principles, such as minimax approval voting and its generalisations, as well as Phragmen's voting rules and the method of equal...
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    pathological behavior of some voting rules where a candidate loses as a result of having too much support (or wins because of increased opposition)....
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    Instant-runoff voting (IRV; US: ranked-choice voting (RCV), AU: preferential voting, UK/NZ: alternative vote) is a single-winner ranked voting election system...
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    is awarded to the candidate or party with the most votes, as with first-past-the-post voting rules. In the second step, underrepresented parties are assigned...
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