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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 "cosuper-districts". The ballot for each district lists the incumbents and candidates from that individual district in a larger font, and the candidates from its cosuper-districts below that in a smaller font. Write-ins may be used to vote for candidates from other districts not listed onoutside the ballotsuper-district. Larger parties will usually run one candidate per district; smaller parties may run just one candidate per cosuper-district set.
* 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:
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