Graduated Majority Judgment: Difference between revisions

 
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# Each voter grades each candidate on a grading scale such as A, B, C, D, F
# The top-grade (eg, A) votes for each candidate are tallied.
# If a single candidate has a majority (that is, a number of votes greater than or equal to 50% of voters), they win.
# If no candidate has a majority, the next grade down (eg, B) is added to the tally, and go back to step 3.
# If more than one candidate has a majority, the last grade tallied is removed from the tallies, and then re-added at the smallest fraction possible so that some candidate has a majority. This is as if the votes at that grade were added 1% at a time until one candidate gets a majority.
 
The above process is conceptually simple, but difficult in practice. The following process gives the same results, and is simpler to run in practice:
 
 
# Each voter grades each candidate on a grading scale such as A, B, C, D, F