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#### First, calculate the fraction F of each of these ballots that must be exhausted in order to exhaust one Droop quota overall.
#### First, calculate the fraction F of each of these ballots that must be exhausted in order to exhaust one Droop quota overall.
####Any scores on these ballots which are higher than 5-5F are set to 5-5F.
####Any scores on these ballots which are higher than 5-5F are set to 5-5F.

Note that this reweighting does not require keeping "weights" separate from "scores". It simply uses up the ballot from the top down. Thus, for instance, a ballot which has exhausted 40% of its voting power (60% power remaining) cannot have any scores higher than 3, because 3 is 60% of 5.