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    The method of equal shares is a proportional method of counting ballots that applies to participatory budgeting, to committee elections, and to simultaneous...
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    ballots and equal rankings. The Nanson method is based on the original work of the mathematician Edward J. Nanson in 1882. Nanson's method eliminates those...
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    approval-based committee rules. Phragmen's method Proportional approval voting (Thiele's method) Method of equal shares Ratings ballots can be converted to ranked/preferential...
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    divisor methods are used to round shares of a total to a fraction with a fixed denominator (e.g. percentage points, which must add up to 100). The methods aim...
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    ranking or rating include the Method of Equal Shares and the Expanding Approvals Rule. In addition to the specific method of electing candidates, electoral...
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    remainder method allocates seats. Moreover, the largest remainder method satisfies the quota rule (each party's seats are equal to its ideal share of seats...
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  • present an efficient algorithm to compute it. This method generalizes the method of equal shares for committee elections. The generalization to PB with...
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    Ranked voting (redirect from Equal rank)
    Nauru uses a rank-weighted positional method called the Dowdall system. In voting with ranked ballots, a tied or equal-rank ballot is one where multiple candidates...
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    The Huntington–Hill method, sometimes called method of equal proportions, is a highest averages method for assigning seats in a legislature to political...
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    book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Method of equal shares D'Hondt method Sequential proportional approval voting Phragmen's voting...
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    approval voting rules behaving similarly to STV, for instance the method of equal shares, which also sequentially selects candidates and reweights the voters...
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  • Thumbnail for Sainte-Laguë method
    The Sainte-Laguë method shows a more equal seats-to-votes ratio for different sized parties among apportionment methods. The method was first described...
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    Coombs' method is a ranked voting system. Like instant-runoff (IRV-RCV), Coombs' method is a sequential-loser method, where the last-place finisher according...
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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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    vote an equal weight. This is both intuitive and stated in laws such as the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (the Equal Protection...
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    describes a desired property of proportional apportionment methods. It says that the number of seats allocated to a party should be equal to their entitlement...
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    generalisations, as well as Phragmen's voting rules and the method of equal shares. The complexity of determining the winners vary: MNTV winners can be found...
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  • Thumbnail for Kemeny–Young method
    The Kemeny–Young method is an electoral system that uses ranked ballots and pairwise comparison counts to identify the most popular choices in an election...
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    satisfied by ranked pairs, Schulze's method, Nanson's method, and several other methods. Moreover, any voting method can be modified to satisfy the Smith...
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    occur in some methods of proportional representation, such as the single transferable vote (STV or RCV-PR) and the largest remainders method of party-list...
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    Condorcet method. Like any voting method, Copeland's may give rise to tied results if two candidates receive equal numbers of votes; but unlike most methods, it...
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    Voting (redirect from Voting method)
    by law in others, such as Australia. There are many electoral methods. The purpose of an election may be to choose one person, such as a president, or...
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    sequential elimination methods are a class of voting systems that repeatedly eliminate the last-place finisher of another voting method until a single candidate...
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    extended EAR to the setting of combinatorial participatory budgeting. The method of equal shares (MES) can be seen as a special case of EAR, in which, in step...
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    of Ranked-Choice Voting". Election Science. The Center for Election Science. Retrieved 2023-07-17. "Voting Method Gameability". Equal Vote. The Equal...
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    Hare quota (category Apportionment methods)
    vote is used to elect someone. The Hare quota is equal to the number of votes divided by the number of seats. The Hare quota was used in Thomas Hare's...
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    is equal to the square root of the number of credits they allocate (put another way, to add 3 votes requires allocating the square or quadratic of the...
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    winners in excess of its share of seats would be excluded from the Bundestag in order of those that received the smallest vote shares. The rule allowing...
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    A Condorcet method (English: /kɒndɔːrˈseɪ/; French: [kɔ̃dɔʁsɛ]) is an election method that elects the candidate who wins a majority of the vote in every...
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  • Thumbnail for Minimax Condorcet method
    In voting systems, the Minimax Condorcet method is a single-winner ranked-choice voting method that always elects the majority (Condorcet) winner. Minimax...
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