And about the proportional range system I talked about earlier, the workings of the system is obvious. Under PAV rules, you assume that candidates give 1 point to an outcome for having one approved of candidate, 1/3 for the second approved of candidate, 1/5 for the third, and so on, and so on.
Proportional range voting is simialar, except that it must occur in sets (where the sets are the amount of points that may be given to each candidate in the system). You add up the points 1 at a time, and whenever adding another point completes a set, reduce the value of the next points the person has given out by V / M * 2 + 1.
So, here's an example of a rating that would be given to an outcome.
This is an election for two seats, with four candidates.
Range is 1-100
voters ballot: A: 25, B: 125, C: 1, D: 75
Comparing this against outcome A, B:
The voter gave out 125 points for A and B combined
So the first 100 points count full strength for this outcome, and the next 25 count 25/ 3, or 8.333...
So the voter gives out 108.3333 points to this outcome.
Now, continue this process for all outcomes, then for all other voters, sum the amount of points each voter gave to each outcome, and the outcome with the most points wins.
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