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Weighted voting refers to voting rules that grant some voters a greater influence than others (which contrasts with rules that assign every voter an equal vote).Examples include publicly-traded companies (which typically grant stockholders one vote for each share they own), as well as the European Council, where the number of votes of each member state is roughly proportional to the square ...
Computer model of the Banzhaf power index from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. The Banzhaf power index, named after John Banzhaf (originally invented by Lionel Penrose in 1946 and sometimes called Penrose–Banzhaf index; also known as the Banzhaf–Coleman index after James Samuel Coleman), is a power index defined by the probability of changing an outcome of a vote where voting rights ...
A majority-preservation clause guarantees any party winning a majority of the vote will receive at least half the seats in a legislature. [20] Without such a clause, it is possible for a party with slightly more than half the vote to receive just barely less than half the seats (if using a method other than D'Hondt). [20]
VotingWorks is a nonprofit organization that creates and sells open-source voting systems in the U.S. They currently have three products: one for casting and counting ballots, [1] another, named Arlo, for risk-limiting audits (RLAs), [2] and a third for accessible at-home voting.
In an election during which the economy is the top issue, the views of the CEOs who employ the vast majority of Americans are important. Why CEOs oppose Trump CEOs tend to be people who have ...
The system has grown over the past two decades with 53 or so cities using it today. But how does ranked-choice voting work when it comes to federal, state and local elections? Here’s how it's ...
This is a list of companies having stocks that are included in the S&P SmallCap 600 stock market index. The index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, comprises the common stocks of 600 small-cap, mostly American, companies. Although called the S&P 600, the index contains 602 stocks because it includes two share classes of stock from 2 of its ...
Staff shortages in multiple Texas counties in Texas meant that voters of one party couldn’t vote at a particular site, at least temporarily. Fact-check: Why some voters faced challenges voting ...