• 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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  • 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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  • The Huntington–Hill method (sometimes method of equal proportions) is a highest averages method for assigning seats in a legislature to political parties...
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  • The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is an apportionment method for allocating seats in parliaments among...
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    that uses voters' orderings (rankings) of candidates to choose a single winner. For example, Dowdall's method assigns 1, 1⁄2, 1⁄3... points to the 1st...
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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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    to FPTP. As a winner-take-all method, it often produces disproportional results, particularly when electing members of a legislature, in the sense that...
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    pick as many candidates as they like and each choice has equal weight, independent of the number of candidates a voter supports. The candidate with the most...
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    voting Fair majority voting Method of equal shares Ratings ballots can be converted to ranked/preferential ballots, assuming equal ranks are allowed. For example:...
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    also known as runoff voting, second ballot, or ballotage, is a voting method used to elect a single candidate. The first round is held using simple plurality...
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  • spoiler effect. However, the frequency and severity of spoiler effects depends on the voting method. Plurality and ranked choice (plurality-loser) are...
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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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    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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    2018-07-09. Retrieved 2018-09-18. "Equal Vote Coalition". Retrieved 2017-04-05. "Score Runoff Voting: The New Voting Method that Could Save Our Democratic...
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  • remainder methods or quota methods are methods of allocating seats proportionally that are based on calculating a quota, i.e. a certain number of votes needed...
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    Voting (redirect from Voting method)
    Voting is a method by which a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, convenes together for the purpose of making a collective decision or expressing...
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  • Z_{n}} ) the random variable equal to the number of voters who placed A in front of B (respectively B in front of C, C in front of A). The sought probability...
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  • 2014, the Equal Vote Coalition advocates a variant method (STAR) with an extra second evaluation step to address some of the criticisms of traditional...
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    variations between the parties' vote shares are effectively reduced, and each party has a roughly equal number of seats. The table below lists countries...
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  • split their votes. Possibly the simplest ballot uses the equal and even cumulative voting method, where a voter simply marks preferred candidates, as in...
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    is a weakly-proportional family of multi-winner electoral systems. They are a variation on the largest remainders method that uses solid coalitions rather...
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  • generalizations, 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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  • divisor methods can be used to round shares of a total, e.g. percentage points (which must add up to 100). The two names for these methods—highest averages...
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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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  • because they extend the principle of majority rule to elections with multiple candidates. In situations where equal or tied ranks are allowed, a candidate...
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  • democratic advances. Ranked-choice voting (RCV) can refer to one of several ranked voting methods used in some cities and states in the United States. The term...
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  • of score voting. Schulze's method uses ranked ballots with equal ratings allowed. There are two common (equivalent) descriptions of Schulze's method....
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  • should make choices, given a collection of individual preferences. This article discusses the methods and results of comparing different systems. There are...
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    German constitution's guarantee of equal and direct suffrage. For electoral methods failing positive value, the frequency of monotonicity violations will...
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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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