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Hi Kristofer,</div>
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I'll reply inline below.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet@t-online.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 2, 2022 4:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> steve bosworth <stevebosworth@hotmail.com>; EM list <election-methods@electorama.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EM] Stop Wasting Citizens’ Votes</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On 02.01.2022 03:38, steve bosworth wrote:<br>
> SUBJECT: Stop Wasting Citizens’ Votes<br>
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K: Looks good, as long as the voters are willing to let the candidates have<br>
weighted votes in the assembly.</div>
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<div class="PlainText">S: I can see that a winner with a smaller weighted vote in the legislative body than other winners might well prefer that each winner have only one vote as at present. However, each voter should correctly see weighted votes as an essential
part of a system that guarantees that their vote will never be needlessly wasted in the assembly, quantitatively or qualitatively. Also, each winner should see weighted votes as necessary in order fully to respect the equality of each citizen.</div>
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<div class="PlainText">K: I have a theoretical question, though. Suppose that some multi-winner<br>
method elects a number of winners with weighted votes. If it's the case<br>
that ranking X higher always gives X a higher weight relative to the<br>
other winners, does this method never waste votes?</div>
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<div class="PlainText">S: With EPR, the weighted vote of the elected candidate that receives (includes) your vote would have the same weight regardless of whether you had awarded that candidate an Excellent or an Acceptable. The only context in which receiving
an <font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">Excellent, more <font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font size="2"><span>than an Acceptable</span></font></span></font>, could help a candidate is when he or she is discovered to be tied -- to have exactly
the same total number of votes (grades of at least Acceptable) when it is decide which of all the candidates has been elected. Such a tie is resolved by lot, unless one of the tied candidates is discovered to have at least one higher grade than the other tied
candidates. Having this higher grade cannot give them a larger weighted vote in the assembly, but it could help to elect them in this relatively rare situation.</span></font></div>
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<div class="PlainText">K: Or does "not wasting votes" mean more than just making the weights<br>
responsive to the voter preferences?</div>
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<div class="PlainText">S: No. Thank you for your questions.</div>
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<div class="PlainText">Steve<br>
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