Hallo, currently, there is the tradition to give 12, 10, 8 points always to its political/ethnic/geographic neighbours. I recommend that a Condorcet method should be used to reduce the effects of this voting behaviour. As Condorcet methods put less emphasis on first preferences, the above voting behaviour would be nivellated over all countries.
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