Majority Choice Approval: Difference between revisions

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'''Majority Choice Approval''' ('''MCA''') is a class of rated voting systems which attempt to find majority support for some candidate. It is closely related to Bucklin Voting, which refers to ranked systems using similar rules. In fact, some people consider MCA a subclass of Bucklin, calling it '''[[ER-Bucklin]]''' (for Equal-Ratings Bucklin). cx. xcxxxxasdCx
 
== How does it work? ==
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All of the methods are [[Summability criterion|summable]] for counting at the precinct level. Only MCA-IR actually requires a matrix (or, possibly two counting rounds), and is thus "[[Summability criterion|summable for k=2]]"; the others require only O(N) tallies, and are thus "[[Summability criterion|summable for k=1]]".
 
TheMCA fails the [[participation criterion]] and its stronger cousin the [[consistency criterion]], as well as the [[later-no-harm criterion]] are not satisfied by any MCA variant, although MCA-P only fails participation if the additional vote causes an approval majority.
 
MCA can also satisfy:
Other criteria are satisfied by MCA variants with appropriate tiebreakers, including:
 
* [[Independence of irrelevant alternatives]]