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To all,</div>
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Thank you Kristofer for guiding me how to put my description of Evaluative-proportional representation (EPR) on my electowiki account. I understand that anyone who would like to test the claims that my co-authors and I make for EPR can do so simply by creating
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<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount" id="OWA528636dc-bf9e-8880-9f8f-258895e06b7e" class="OWAAutoLink elementToProof" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount</a> and</div>
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then log in with the account, go to the EPR page here:<br>
<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Evaluative_Proportional_Representation" id="OWA648bf78e-8e27-9041-30d1-39c2a7a9413e" class="OWAAutoLink elementToProof" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">https://electowiki.org/wiki/Evaluative_Proportional_Representation</a> ,
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click on "edit" and perhaps then perhaps on to the "Discussion" button.</div>
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I look forward to any person's comments, questions, criticisms, counter arguments, etc.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Also, below is a copy of my first draft which you will also find at
</span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Evaluative_Proportional_Representation" id="OWAe4d4d4a4-011b-79f4-3909-157fd3a21618" class="OWAAutoLink elementToProof" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">https://electowiki.org/wiki/Evaluative_Proportional_Representation</a> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Best,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bozy</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3/13/2025 (Bozy): </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Evaluative Proportional Representation</b> (<b>EPR</b>) is a proportional extension of
<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Majority_Judgment" id="OWA86df1b80-636c-ea93-3156-72ce190616c4" class="OWAAutoLink" title="Majority Judgment" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Majority Judgment</a>, devised by Stephen Bosworth.<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Evaluative_Proportional_Representation#cite_note-1" id="OWAfe29374b-3afb-574f-9be8-6b52cc3a5ea8" class="OWAAutoLink" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[1]</a>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EPR is only related to the <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Expanding_Approvals_Rule" id="OWA03f18f88-0665-0104-c082-b332e359a48a" class="OWAAutoLink" title="Expanding Approvals Rule" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Expanding Approvals Rule</a> in that it invites voters to “approve” any number of the candidates. However, EPR also allows the voter to more expressively specify each approved candidate’s suitability as either Excellent, Very Good, Good, or Acceptable. Disapproved
candidates can be indicated by Poor or Reject. All ungraded candidates are counted as a Reject.
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Each voter’s ballot is guaranteed equally to add to the weighted vote of one of the elected candidates in the legislative body. For example, each of the elected members of a seven-member city council will
have a different weighted vote in the council exactly equal to the different seven highest numbers of ballots counted for them according to the rules of the count as explained below.
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Compared to known voting methods, EPR is most like proportional ranked-choice voting (PRCV, also called single-transferable vote (STV)). However, EPR instead invites voters to rank candidates by grading their
suitability for office as either Excellent, Very Good, Good, Acceptable, Poor, or Reject. Voters can award the same grade to more than one candidate. Each EPR ballot contains only one vote.
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All these grades are counted to guarantee that each EPR voter will be represented equally in the weighted vote of the elected candidate who had received either the voter’s highest grade, their highest remaining
grade, or their proxy vote. Consequently, EPR maximizes the quality of each citizen’s vote, as well as enabling each citizen’s vote to quantitatively count equally through the weighed vote of in the legislative body of the candidate their vote had helped to
elect. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Additionally, EPR’s qualitative grades enable voters to express more clearly their different degrees of support or oppositions to different candidates. For example, in contrast to an EPR voter, a plurality,
Condorcet, approval, ranked-choice, or score voter cannot secretly communicate whether their 1st choice candidate is their
<i>least bad</i> or <i>best</i> candidate. Each citizen’s EPR ballot enables them secretly to reveal the values that led them to grade the candidates as they did. Their values are probably more aligned with the values displayed by a candidate they graded Excellent
than one they judged only to be Acceptable or Poor. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Consequently, analyses of each EPR-post-election report would probably provide everyone with much more information about the priorities of all their fellow voters that could be extracted from studies of all
the post-election reports of any other known voting system – to inform everyone about the exact numbers and intensities with which all voters are aligned with the values expressed by each candidate. In this way, the qualitative advantage of using grades by
EPR voters would seem to enable everyone to learn more about the realities of their society than is offered by any other election method.
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As a result,100% of the voters are equally represented quantitatively in the legislative body through the weighted voting of the member of the legislative body they helped to elect. Qualitatively, the voter’s
grade for that winning candidate optimally assures the voter that the values of this winner are aligned with theirs. These benefits seem not to be delivered by any other type of PR currently being used in the world. EPR optimally respects the democratic principle
that each citizen’s vote should count equally. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Exactly how an EPR election would be counted is provided by the EPR Count: Detailed Description link listed under “Supplementary Materials in GitHub” located on the last page of our published article:
<i>"Legislatures Elected by Evaluative Proportional Representation (EPR): an Algorithm. "</i>https://www.jpolrisk.com/legislatures-elected-by-evaluative-proportional-representation-epr-an-algorithm-v3/)]
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">P.S. When ready our following 2020 article, please replace "proportionality" with "proportional."
<i>"Legislatures Elected by Evaluative Proportional Representation (EPR): an Algorithm"</i><nowiki><a href="https://www.jpolrisk.com/legislatures-elected-by-evaluative-proportional-representation-epr-an-algorithm-v3/" id="OWA00100eec-447d-eb49-3e0a-7cef077a519b" class="external free OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.jpolrisk.com/legislatures-elected-by-evaluative-proportional-representation-epr-an-algorithm-v3/</a>)
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:</b> Kristofer Munsterhjelm<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 9, 2025 7:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> steve bosworth<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EM] Evaluative-proportional representation (EPR) is now on electowiki. Feedback please.
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<div class="elementToProof" style="font-size: 11pt;">On 2025-02-01 03:49, steve bosworth wrote:<br>
> Dear Kristofer,<br>
> Please guide me on how properly to enter EPR onto electowiki.<br>
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Sorry for the late reply.<br>
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I thought you meant that you had already put EPR up on Electowiki. If<br>
you'd like to, create an account at<br>
<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount" id="OWA4c3ffc28-8c77-149f-9aec-20b968efdf4d" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable">https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount</a><br>
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Then log in with the account, go to the EPR page here:</div>
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-km<br>
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