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#* ''This finds the candidate with the widest and deepest support.''
#* ''This finds the candidate with the widest and deepest support.''


== Naming note ==
== Naming and relationship to other systems ==


Majority score voting was originally called SARA voting, an acronym for the 4 ratings voters can give. However, putting these ratings out-of-order is confusing, even if it results in a nice-sounding acronym.
Majority score voting was originally called SARA voting, an acronym for the 4 ratings voters can give. However, putting these ratings out-of-order is confusing, even if it results in a nice-sounding acronym.


It's also similar to other systems such as [[MAS]], [[Majority Choice Approval]], and other [[graded Bucklin]] systems.
It's also similar to other systems such as [[MAS]], [[Majority Choice Approval]], and other [[graded Bucklin]] systems. Like such systems, it first checks a candidate's median, and, if that is good enough to be comparable with other candidates, goes on to break that "tie" using some other voting method.


== Criteria compliance ==
== Criteria compliance ==