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| | Bloc voting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The term bloc voting is also used to refer to the concept of voting as a bloc, a system of winner take all decision-making whereby the vote of an entire electoral unit is cast in line with the majority decision of that unit, discounting any contrary votes. | | | Plurality bloc voting is also used in the election of the Senate of Poland. | | | Bloc voting using a series of check boxes similar to a first-past-the-post election is referred to as plurality-at-large or at-large voting, while bloc voting using a preferential ballot is referred to as preferential bloc voting. |
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| | Voting system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Binary voting systems are those in which a voter either votes or doesn't vote for a given candidate. | | | In voting systems that allow "plumping", like cumulative voting, voters may vote for the same candidate multiple times. | | | Voting systems are also judged with criteria that are not mathematically precise but are still important, such as simplicity, speed of vote-counting, the potential for fraud or disputed results, strategic voting, and (for multiple-winner methods) the degree of proportionality. |
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| | Voting system - Encyclopedia of Political Information |
| | In voting systems that allow "plumping", like cumulative voting, voters may vote for the same candidate multiple times. | | | A voting system may select only one option, in which case it is called a "single winner system", or it may select multiple options, for example to fill a parliament. | | | Voting systems are methods (algorithms) for groups of people to select one or more options from many, taking into account the individual preferences of the group members. |
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| | How Proportional Representation Can Empower Minorities and the Poor |
| | Instituted to settle a voting rights lawsuit, cumulative voting had an immediate impact: a black candidate and Latino candidate won seats with strong support in their communities; voter turnout increased four times over the most recent school board election; and all parties in the voting rights settlement expressed satisfaction with the new system. | | | The DOJ has pre-cleared use of cumulative voting and limited voting in numerous states covered by Section Five of the Voting Rights Act; as of 2000, every jurisdiction seeking to convert from a winner-take-all system to one of these systems ultimately was permitted to do so. | | | Also known as “single transferable vote” and “preference voting,” choice voting is the most common candidate-based proportional system used in other nations. |
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| | Limited Voting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the special case where the voter may vote for only one candidate, and there are two or more posts, this system of voting is called the single non-transferable vote. | | | Limited voting is a voting system where there are several posts (or vacancies), where the maximum number of candidates that each voter can vote for is less than the number of vacant posts. | | | In bloc voting, where the maximum number of candidates that each voter can vote for is equal to the number of posts, it is possible for a single faction to take all the posts. |
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| | Diet of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Constitution of Japan does not specify the number of members of each house of the Diet, the voting system, or the necessary qualifications of those who may vote or be returned in parliamentary elections, allowing all of these things to be determined by law. | | | Japan's parallel voting system is not to be confused with the Additional Member System used in many other nations. | | | Membership of the Diet is open to citizens who are at least twenty-five in the case of the House of Representatives and thirty in the case of the upper house, and no one may be a member of both houses at the same time. |
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| | City Measure Proposes Instant Runoff Voting - The Daily Californian |
| | The measure would bar Berkeley from implementing instant runoff voting until Alameda County follows suit, because the county's voting machines are not equipped to handle the new voting system. | | | Proponents of the system maintain that instant runoff voting could draw more residents to the booths, because voters whose first-place candidate is dropped could still have their voices heard. | | | But instant runoff voting is confusing and there are too many different variations of the system, said councilmember Gordon Wozniak, who won his seat in the December 2002 runoff. |
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| | UCSDGuardian - U.S. plurality voting system criticized by SF author |
| | Arguing that votes in U.S. elections do not entirely affect outcomes, author Steven Hill, during a talk on Feb. 18, advocated modifying the U.S. voting system, both to open more opportunities for third parties and to promote increased voter participation. | | | Hill cited Franklin Elementary School in Berkeley, Calif., which uses instant runoff voting to elect its student body president, as proof of the instant runoff voting system's simplicity. | | | Under the current voting system, which is familiar to most Americans, the candidate who earns the largest percentage of the vote -- a plurality and not necessarily a majority -- wins the election. |
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| | Wired News: Aussies Do It Right: E-Voting |
| | Election officials in the Australian Capital Territory, one of eight states and territories in the country, turned to electronic voting for the same reason the United States did -- a close election in 1998 exposed errors in the state's hand-counting system. | | | Called eVACS, or Electronic Voting and Counting System, the system was created by a company called Software Improvements to run on Linux, an open-source operating system available on the Internet. | | | While critics in the United States grow more concerned each day about the insecurity of electronic voting machines, Australians designed a system two years ago that addressed and eased most of those concerns: They chose to make the software running their system completely open to public scrutiny. |
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| | US presidential electoral system |
| | Of course, the majority vote decision system (the only monotone symmetric unbiased voting system) is votational: it is obtained by giving every elector the same weight, and choosing a threshold of half the total weight (the number of electors must be odd, remember). | | | This is also, typically, the system used in the US presidential election: each state represents a caste, each caste's decision system is the monotone symmetric unbiased voting system, and the overall decision system is a weighted votational system. | | | We recall the definition of the coefficient of power of an elector in a voting system, and state some elementary facts. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports More on postal voting |
| | April 8: The high court will today be asked to order Tony Blair to clean up the postal voting system before the general election. | | | March 23: A high court judge yesterday questioned the validity of the forthcoming general election by branding the current postal voting system "an open invitation to fraud". | | | May 20: The UK elections watchdog today called for root and branch reform of postal voting in Britain in the wake of abuses of the existing system exposed in the run-up to the general election. |
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| | Behind the Ballot Box |
| | This book is designed to serve as a guide for people interested in learning more about voting systems and voting system reform in the United States. | | | Chapter three describes several kinds of plurality-majority voting systems, which include the systems most often used in United States elections. | | | It provides a set of political criteria that can be used to judge voting systems. |
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| | Voting |
| | This voting system is the one in which each voter casts a single vote for the candidate they wish to elect and this was proved in 1952 by Kenneth May. | | | There was a vigorous argument between the two mathematicians as to which of the two voting systems was the best but of course since both systems had their strengths and weaknesses, such an argument was bound to be inconclusive. | | | Attempts to overcome the deficiencies of voting systems had been proposed long before game theory was invented. |
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| | Davis Citizens for Representation |
| | The old system on the left is called block voting, where each voter gets a block of six votes. | | | Block voting is a winner-take-all system because the largest group can sweep all the seats, even if they represent a minority viewpoint. | | | Choice voting is a proportional system, which means that the election outcome is always an accurate cross-section of the electorate. |
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| | Voting system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In voting systems that allow "plumping", like cumulative voting, voters may vote for the same candidate multiple times. | | | A voting system may select only one option (usually a candidate, but also an option that represents a decision), in which case it is called a "single winner system", or it may select multiple options, for example candidates to fill an assembly or alternative possible decisions on the measure the ballot posed. | | | Voting systems are methods (algorithms) for groups of people to select one or more options from many, taking into account the individual preferences of the group members. |
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| | BBC NEWS VOTE2001 TALKING POINT Tactical voting - trick or treat? |
| | Tactical voting would be pointless if either the SDP-wing of the LDs became annihilated, leaving a real Liberal Party, or the current election system was replaced by a simple yes/no vote of confidence in the sitting MP at the dissolution. | | | Tactical voting is a form of PR that the public have realised works in our unfair system - instead of voting first and second choice though, we simply leave out our first choice if they can't win, and go straight for our second choice. | | | If you love the first-past-the post system then shut up bleating about tactical voting and learn to live with it because it is here to stay, and it is the Tories that will continue to be the main losers. |
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| | This book is designed to serve as a guide for people interested in learning more about voting systems and voting system reform in the United States. | | | Chapter three describes several kinds of plurality-majority voting systems, which include the systems most often used in United States elections. | | | It provides a set of political criteria that can be used to judge voting systems. |
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| | Wired News: Aussies Do It Right: E-Voting |
| | Election officials in the Australian Capital Territory, one of eight states and territories in the country, turned to electronic voting for the same reason the United States did -- a close election in 1998 exposed errors in the state's hand-counting system. | | | Called eVACS, or Electronic Voting and Counting System, the system was created by a company called Software Improvements to run on Linux, an open-source operating system available on the Internet. | | | Two candidates were separated by only three or four votes, said Phillip Green, electoral commissioner for the territory. |
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| | ACT Electoral Commission - Electronic Voting |
| | The ACT's electronic voting system, which was first used at the October 2001 election and was again used in the October 2004 election, is the first of its kind to be used for parliamentary elections in Australia. | | | The system uses standard personal computers as voting terminals, with voters using a barcode to authenticate their votes. | | | The software for the electronic voting and counting system was built using Linux open source software, which was chosen specifically for this electoral system to ensure that election software is open and transparent and could be made available to scrutineers, candidates and other participants in the electoral process. |
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| | Plurality Electoral Systems |
| | This voting system is a variant of the limited vote--each elector is given only one vote. | | | This voting system gives each elector as many votes as there are seats to be filled. | | | The plurality electoral system is the oldest and the most frequently used voting system. |
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| | Instant-runoff voting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In order to increase awareness of the voting method and to demonstrate it in a real-world situation, the Independence Party of Minnesota tested IRV by using it in a straw poll during the 2004 Minnesota caucuses (results favored John Edwards). | | | When the Single Transferable Vote voting system is applied to a single-winner election it is sometimes called instant-runoff voting (IRV), as it is much like holding a series of runoff elections in which the lowest polling candidate is eliminated in each round until someone receives majority vote. | | | In September 2003, an amendment to the California State Constitution was proposed (SCA 14) with wide-ranging goals of election reform, including ranked-choice voting for statewide offices. |
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| | Wikinfo Voting system |
| | In voting systems that allow "plumping", like cumulative voting, voters may vote for the same candidate multiple times. | | | Voting systems are methods ( algorithms) for groups of people to select one or more options from many, taking into account the individual preferences of the group members. | | | Voting systems can be abstracted as mathematical functions that select between choices based on the utility of each option for each voter. |
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| | Electronic voting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most voters in Estonia can cast their vote in local and parliamentary elections, if they want to, via the Internet, as most of those on the electoral roll have access to an e-voting system, the largest run by any European Union country. | | | Electronic voting can be used by the electorate in elections and or referendums/preferendums, and/or it can be used by the elected representatives in parliaments. | | | Electronic voting machine used in all Brazilian elections and plebiscites. |
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| | Alice Doesn't Vote Here Anymore |
| | When the system is rigged against you, a boycott makes perfect sense (international comparisons demonstrate, to nobody's surprise, that voter turnout is far lower in democracies with plurality voting than in multiparty democracies using proportional representation). | | | While elections under the plurality system tend to produce rival moderates exaggerating their differences, elections under the preference voting system would encourage candidates from genuinely different parties to reach out to members of other parties. | | | Plurality voting by single-member districts is how we elect the House, state legislatures, city councils, and other legislative bodies. |
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| | Postal Voting Scandal |
| | If we had had our way, the recommendations of the Electoral Commission would have been accepted and implemented, and we would not have a voting system fit for a banana republic, which is what a High Court judge said is the present position." | | | For the first time in a general election, the Labour government has invited international observers to monitor the integrity of the campaign, with a special emphasis on the postal voting system. | | | Michael Howard has pointed the finger of blame at Tony Blair as fears intensify over the likelihood of a postal voting fraud scandal engulfing the May 5 general election. |
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| | Voting system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In voting systems that allow "plumping", like cumulative voting, voters may vote for the same candidate multiple times. | | | A voting system may select only one option (usually a candidate, but also an option that represents a decision), in which case it is called a "single winner system", or it may select multiple options, for example candidates to fill an assembly or alternative possible decisions on the measure the ballot posed. | | | Voting systems are methods (algorithms) for groups of people to select one or more options from many, taking into account the individual preferences of the group members. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Bloc voting |
| | Block voting also describes a system of winner takes all decision-taking whereby the vote of an entire electoral unit is cast in line with the majority decision of that unit (i.e. | | | Bloc voting (or block voting) (also called Plurality-at-large) refers to a class of voting systems which can be used to elect several representatives from a single constituency. | | | Partial block voting (or Limited-voting) involves each voter receiving fewer votes than the number of candidates to be elected. |
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| | Tactical voting - encyclopedia article about Tactical voting. |
| | Since then tactical voting has become a real consideration in British politics as is reflected in by-elections and by the growth in sites such as tacticalvoting.com who encourage tactical voting as a way of defusing the two party system and empowering the individual voter. | | | Approval voting is vulnerable to tactical voting, however, as a voter can exaggerate his disapproval of a slightly unpreferred candidate by not ranking him in order to help ensure his most preferred candidate wins, analogous to the burying strategy mentioned above. | | | Burying is a type of strategic voting in which a voter insincerely ranks an alternative lower in the hopes of defeating it. |
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| | First Past the Post electoral system - encyclopedia article about First Past the Post electoral system. |
| | If enough voters use this tactic, the first-past-the-post system becomes a form of runoff voting where the first round is held in the court of public opinion. | | | However, the system of forming a governing government is also crucial; it is very common in former British colonies and is the single most commonly used system for election of parliaments [1] based on FPTP voting districts. | | | Note that this system does not require that the winner have a majority simple majority is the most common requirement in voting for a measure to pass, especially in deliberative bodies and small organizations. |
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