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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; font-size: 12pt;"><font color="#001000" face="""",serif">Yes, Approval would work, but unlike Majority Judgment (Balinski & Laraki,
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</span><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: " font-style: italic">Majority Judgment</i><span style="display: inline !important; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%"> (2010, MIT)</span> Approval does not guarantee
finding the option most supported by an absolute majority, nor would it inform us how highly all the MPs grade each of the options.</font></p>
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Judgment would allow the Commons to decide on one of the many options by an absolute majority as a result of counting one ballot from each of the MPs.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Each MP is simply asked to “grade” as many of the options listed as either Excellent (ideal), Very Good, Good, Acceptable, Poor, or “Reject”.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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padding:0in">Each option not explicitly graded is counted as “Reject” by that voter. The same grade can be given to more than
one choice.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:""",serif;color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">As a result, all the options will have received the same number of grades, but a different set. The winner is the choice that
has received an absolute majority of grades that are equal to, or higher than, the highest
<i>median-grade</i> given to any of the choices.</span></p>
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1. Approval style voting could be used in Brexit Vote in<br>
Parliament? (Gervase Lam)<br>
2. Re: Approval style voting could be used in Brexit Vote in<br>
Parliament? (Gervase Lam)<br>
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:00:13 +0000<br>
From: Gervase Lam <gervase@madasafish.com><br>
To: election-methods@lists.electorama.com<br>
Subject: [EM] Approval style voting could be used in Brexit Vote in<br>
Parliament?<br>
Message-ID: <1553522413.3102.16.camel@madasafish.com><br>
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Note that (Yes/No) Indicative votes are not legally binding and is<br>
named for the purpose of the vote rather than how the vote should be<br>
done.<br>
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*?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47670348<br>
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"Alongside the PM's deal, as many as six other options could be voted<br>
on, including:<br>
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- revoking Article 50 and cancelling Brexit<br>
- another referendum<br>
- the PM's deal plus a customs union<br>
- the PM's deal plus both a customs union and single market membership<br>
- a Canada-style free trade agreement<br>
- leaving the EU without a deal<br>
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It is possible other options which could command reasonable levels of<br>
support might be added to the mix.<br>
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At the end all would be voted on simultaneously. MPs would fill out a<br>
ballot paper on each, voting for or against, and the relative support<br>
could then be seen."<br>
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