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 If decimal influence amounts are not allowed, the following modifications can be used:
-* The influence amount of the ballots that contribute to an elected candidate's transfer count can be randomly assigned to either zero or one, with the number of these ballots getting a zero influence amount being equal to the quota count, and the remaining randomly selected contributing ballots would get an influence amount of one.  For maximum fairness, these random selections can differ from one counting round to the next.
+* Instead of giving a single reduced influence amount to ballots that support an elected candidate, some of the supporting ballots are given full influence and others are given zero influence.
+* Selecting which ballots get full influence and which ballots get zero influence should make use of information about how many ballots share the same marking pattern.  For example, if 100 ballots have the same marking pattern and the decimal calculation method would reduce their influence to 0.8 of a vote each, then selecting any 80 of these ballots to get full influence and giving the remaining 20 ballots zero influence produces the same result as the decimal approach.
-* Ballots on which more than one remaining candidate shares the same highest ranking level are uniformly allocated to the remaining shared-level candidates.  This means that the example above involving candidates A, B, C, and D would give half the ballots that have an influence count of one (during that round) to candidate C, and would give the other half to candidate D.
+* Ballots that have unique or uncommon marking patterns must be selected semi-randomly, yet the total number of supporting ballots getting zero influence must equal the quota count, and the total number of ballots getting full influence must equal the elected-candidate's transfer count minus the quota count.
+* Instead of using the same semi-random selections from one counting round to the next, the semi-random selection process should be done for each counting round.  This approach makes it unlikely that the same specific ballot will get zero influence significantly more than any other specific ballot that has similar markings.
+* Ballots on which two or more remaining candidates share the same highest ranking level are distributed almost the same as in the decimal calculation method.  The significant difference is that ballots with zero influence (during that counting round) are not distributed among the shared-level candidates.
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