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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 ...
Parallel voting: Two-round system (41 seats) Party-list proportional representation (22 seats) Togo: President: Head of State and Government Two-round system: National Assembly: Unicameral legislature Party-list proportional representation: Turkmenistan: President: Head of State and Government Two-round system: Assembly: Unicameral of ...
An electoral system (or voting system) is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Some electoral systems elect a single winner (single candidate or option), while others elect multiple winners, such as members of parliament or boards of directors.
Proportional representation is the most widely used electoral system for national legislatures, with the parliaments of over eighty countries elected by a form of the system. Party-list proportional representation is the single most common electoral system and is used by 80 countries, and involves voters voting for a list of candidates proposed ...
Punch card voting equipment was developed in the 1960s, with about one-third of votes cast with punch cards in 1980. New York was the last state to phase out lever voting in response to the 2000 Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which allocated funds for the replacement of lever machine and punch card voting equipment. New York replaced its lever ...
Plurality voting is the most common voting system, and has been in widespread use since the earliest democracies.As plurality voting has exhibited weaknesses from its start, especially as soon as a third party joins the race, some individuals turned to transferable votes (facilitated by contingent ranked ballots) to reduce the incidence of wasted votes and unrepresentative election results.
Many voting ballots allow a voter to "blanket vote" for all candidates in a particular political party or to select individual candidates on a line by line voting system. Which candidates appear on the voting ticket is determined through a legal process known as ballot access. Usually, the size of the candidate's political party and the results ...
Ranked-choice voting (RCV) can refer to one of several ranked voting methods used in some cities and states in the United States. The term is not strictly defined, but most often refers to instant-runoff voting (IRV) or single transferable vote (STV), the main difference being whether only one winner or multiple winners are elected.