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Ballot design or voting machine instructions are particularly important in such systems, as each voter is expected to express a rather complex set of [[tolerances versus preferences|tolerances or preferences]] in each vote.
Example: if there are 4 candidates, A, B, C and D, then a voter could rank them as A>B>C=D (A is the voter's 1st choice, but they'll take B if they can't get A because B is their 2nd choice, and C and D are equally preferable), B>C (B is better than C), etc. When a voter doesn't rank all candidates, it's usually assumed they have no preference between the candidates they didn't rank, and that they prefer every candidate they ranked over all of their unranked candidates.
== Ballot variations ==
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