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### All ballots which score the winner higher than their constituent score are fully exhausted. |
### All ballots which score the winner higher than their constituent score are fully exhausted. |
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### All ballots which score the winner at exactly their constituent score are treated equally, partially exhausted. |
### All ballots which score the winner at exactly their constituent score are treated equally, partially exhausted. |
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#### First, calculate the fraction |
#### First, calculate the fraction E of each of these ballots that must be exhausted in order to exhaust one Droop quota overall. Use this to calculate the new maximum score on the ballot. If the previous maximum score on the ballot was M (to begin with, M=5), the new maximum will be M-ME |
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####Any scores on these ballots which are higher than |
####Any scores on these ballots which are higher than the maximum score is set to the maximum score. |
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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. |
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. |
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