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Scaling is when the amount of support a ballot gives a candidate is proportionally adjusted by how much weight it has remaining. In other words, a ballot with 50% weight that originally gave a candidate 70% support when it had full weight will now give that candidate 35% support.
=== Sorted Surplus Handling ===
The standard surplus handling treats everybody equally which can result in a potential centrist bias. Consider the 5 winner toy example
* 41% A:5 B:2 C:0
* 20% A:0 B:5 C:0
* 41% A:0 B:2 C:5
where only Bs are elected. This bias gives strategic incentives to truncate. To avoid this scenario one can take the quota of score form the most highly endorsing voters first. This adds additional complexity as a sort is difficult manually but some consider it worth the tradeoff.
=== Quota of Ballot Selection ===
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