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=== Equal Vote Criterion ===
Otherwise known as the Equality Criterion. Any single-winner voting method or election which passes the Test of Balance passes the [[Equal Vote Criterion]] and can be said to guarantee an [[Equally Weighted Vote]].
=== The Test of Balance ===
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=== '''Vote unitarity''' ===
One application of the Equally Weighted Vote for the multi-winner or proportional context is [[Vote unitarity|vote unitarity]]. The basic idea is that the vote should stay equally weighted throughout the election tabulation. A voter's influence on electing subsequent winners should directly depend on the amount of support
There is an important nuance to this with regards to [[Surplus Handling]]; if, say, every voter gives one of the winners a
In summary, there is a
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