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DMC chooses the same winner as (and could be considered equivalent in most respects to) [[Ranked Approval Voting]] (RAV) (also known as Approval Ranked Concorcet), and [[Pairwise Sorted Approval]] (PSA).
== Procedure ==
=== The Ballot ===
Voters can grade their choices from favorite (A) to least preferred (ungraded), and give some or all of their graded choices a "passing grade" to signify approval.▼
▲One implementation of Definite Majority Choice might use a [[Graded Ballot]] with a Lowest Passing Grade option. Voters can grade their choices from favorite (A) to least preferred (ungraded), and give some or all of their graded choices a "passing grade" to signify approval.
To determine the winner:▼
# Eliminate any candidate that is defeated in a one-to-one match with any other higher-approved candidate. So by 2 different measures, a definite majority agrees that candidate should be eliminated.▼
#If more than one candidate remains, the winner is the single candidate that defeats all others in one-to-one (pairwise)contests.▼
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Ungraded candidates are graded below all others and get no Approval points.
If this were a vote for president, one could compare the LPG
The main reason for a voter to grade candidates below the "Gerald Ford" mark would be if
=== Tallying Votes ===
Rankings are added into a Round-Robin array, and the approval scores of each candidate are tabulated into the otherwise unused diagonal entries.
▲To determine the winner:
▲# Eliminate any candidate that is defeated in a one-to-one match with any other higher-approved candidate. So by 2 different measures, a definite majority agrees that candidate should be eliminated.
▲#If more than one candidate remains, the winner is the single candidate that defeats all others in one-to-one (pairwise)contests.
=== Handling Ties and Near Ties ===
In ordinary DMC, the winner is the candidate in Forest Simmon's '''[http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Techniques_of_method_design#Special_sets P]''' set, the ''set of candidates which are not approval-consistently defeated''.
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