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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:107%">Candidate Proxy Ballot
Enhancement<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:107%">A base method is chosen well before
the election.<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:107%">Candidates publish their own ratings
or rankings of the candidates well before the election but temporarily withhold certain strategic information like approval and/or truncation cutoffs.<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:107%">When the designated time comes,
voters submit their more or less completed ballots, including a designation of
one or more candidates as “favorites.”<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:107%">Once all of the partially filled ballots
are collected and statistically summarized the candidates finish their own
ballots by establishing their own explicit approval and truncation cutoffs.<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:107%">Then each of the partially completed voter
ballots is (automatically) completed (as far as possible) using the information
from the ballot of its designated “favorite” (with fractional weight if more than one favorite) while respecting all of the
ordinal and cardinal information already included, and not including
information that the voter wants to remain unspecified.<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:107%"><span> </span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:107%">Once so enhanced, these ballots are
fed into the base method to elect the winner.<span></span></span></b></p>

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