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Line 1: {{Merge to\|Approval voting\|date=February 2019\|discuss=Merge}} [[Utilitarian Voting]] is a [[single winner election method]] design to satisfy Jeremy Bentham's Principle of Utility. This principle can be stated as ""Act always to promote the greatest happiness for the greatest number." [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james-mill/]. That was how Bentham had stated it. It is also called Happiness Voting.▼ ▲[[Utilitarian Voting]] is a [[single winner election method]] design to satisfy Jeremy Bentham's Principle of Utility. This principle can be stated as ""Act always to promote the greatest happiness for the greatest number." [<ref>http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james-mill/].</ref> That was how Bentham had stated it. It is also called Happiness Voting. ==The Procedure== Line 10 ⟶ 12: '''Voting system - VSR A - VSR B''' <pre> Magically elect optimum winner 100.00% 100.00% Range (honest voters) 96.71% 94.66% Line 24 ⟶ 26: Plurality (strategic voters) 39.07% 39.21% Elect random winner 0.00% 0.00% </pre> == References == [[Category:Single-winner voting systems]]▼ <references /> ~~[[Category:Voting systems]]~~ [[Category:~~Approval~~Single-winner ~~Methods~~voting methods]] ▲[[Category:~~Single-winner~~Approval voting ~~systems~~]]