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<DIV class=gmail_quote>> <BR>> >Why are the votes only delegable if you bullet vote (or is that obvious)?<BR><BR>>Because if you vote for several, which one would get to assign the delegated votes?</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>Can't they all delegate the votes that they get from you?<BR> <BR> <BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Also, just out of interest, is there a multi-winner version?<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>>SODA outputs approval ballots (which can also be considered as 3-rank Bucklin ballots). Any proportional method with approval ballots as an input can then >be used. With the number of dimensions on which such systems can vary, I could easily list two dozen distinct methods (although results would tend to agree >across many of them).</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>With a proportional approval system, it wouldn't always be obvious who would get elected under a particular result before going into the calculations. So when it gets to the delegation stage, wouldn't it be a headache for the candidates to work out what would happen depending on how they delegated?</DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>