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* Candidates pre-announce their rank-ordering of the parties (starting with their own party) and may optionally approve/disapprove within each party.

* Voters may vote on the candidates in their or nearby districts, or write in candidates from farther off.

*: To simplify the ballots, ~~the population is separated into a "district" for each seat, and "~~districts" are grouped into sets of 2 or 3 "co-districts". The ballot for each district lists the incumbents and candidates from that district in a larger font, and the candidates from its co-districts below that in a smaller font. Write-ins may be used to vote for candidates from ~~other districts not listed on~~ the ~~ballot~~. Larger parties will usually run one candidate per district; smaller parties may run just one candidate per co-district ~~set~~.

*: To simplify the ballots, districts are grouped into sets of 2 or 3 "super-districts". The ballot for each district lists the incumbents and candidates from that individual district in a larger font, and the candidates from its super-districts below that in a smaller font. Write-ins may be used to vote for candidates from outside the super-district. Larger parties will usually run one candidate per district; smaller parties may run just one candidate per super-district.

* Each vote is transformed into the pre-announced party preference order and individual approvals/disapprovals of the candidate it chooses. Votes will never be transferred to a candidate who was disapproved in the pre-announced list.

* A legislature is elected by a modified version of [[STV]], using the following steps: