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Geographic Open List/Delegated voting (GOLD voting) is a quasiproportional voting method for electing legislators to a multi-seat body. It's the same as [[Open List/Delegated (OL/D) voting|OL/D voting]] with an additional constraint that precisely one representative per
Voters make two different choices in each race:
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#* If V is the total number of valid (non-exhausted) votes, and S is the number of seats, then a “quota” is defined as Q=V/(S+1). This ensures that each full “quota” of voters will get a seat, with less than one “quota” of vote left unrepresented even though they still have a valid preference.
#* Any candidate with a full quota of votes at any time is elected. If their winning vote total is W>Q, then the leftover fraction (W-Q)/W of all of their votes is transferred.
#* Whenever a candidate wins, all other candidates from their
# Eliminate candidate with lowest total and transfer votes
#* The last candidate in a
#* See above for the transfer methods a voter can choose.
# If there are still seats to fill, repeat from step 3.
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