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For questions about rule systems for scoring votes. Not for questions about country-specific rules or practices but for the theory and practice of voting systems. Examples include proportional-representation and first-past-the-post.

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Ranked voting by a committee when some members cannot vote for a particular candidate becaus...

Any Condorcet method should work, provided you normalize the result of each pairing in the matrix according to the number of voters that caould express a preference. The ballot is an ordered list of a …
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Why do referendums use a binary choice rather than a numerical score?

Because the outcome is binary The proposition either passes or it doesn't. As others have said, the only rational numbers to use would be 0% and 100%, and that's because you can only prefer one outcom …
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What are the disadvantages to 2-round elections where the top candidates from the first roun...

Here is an example: in a 3-candidate election there is a centrist candidate that everybody could live with but is not a popular first choice (as it is often the case). Not having many first choices t …
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