Majority Approval Voting: Difference between revisions

Majority Approval Voting (MAV) is a modern, [[evaluative]] version of [[Bucklin voting]]. Voters rate each candidate into one of a predefined set of ratings or grades, such as the letter grades "A", "B", "C", "D", and "F". As with any Bucklin system, first the top-levelgrade ("A") votes for each candidate are tallied,counted andas ifapprovals. If one or more candidate has a majority, theythen winthe highest majority wins. If not, thevotes lowerat levelsnext aregrade addeddown to("B") theare tallies,tentatively oneadded atto aeach timecandidate's (ie,approval "B",scores. thenIf "C",there etc.)is until someone candidate or candidates havewith a majority., Ifthey win; if there are more than one candidates with a majority, the one"B" ofvotes thoseare whoremoved hadand the highest tallysub-majority atwins; theand next level up (previous step) is the winner. Ifif there are morestill than oneno candidates with a majority at, the firstprocess step, then the onecontinues with the largest"C", majority"D", isand thefinally winner"F" votes.

The grades or ranks for this system could be numbers instead of letter grades. Terms such as "graded MAV" or "rated MAV" can be used to distinguish these possibilities if necessary. In either case, descriptive labels such as "A:Unconditional support" are recommended. For instance, for the letter grades: