Acclamation Voting in Sparta: An Early Use of Approval Voting
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/an Experiment in Approval Voting
In its 1985 election for council The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS) ran a test of approval voting by sending a non-binding approval ballot to its members along with the regular plurality ballot. In approval voting a person votes for (approves of) as many candidates as desired, the winner being the candidate with the most votes. Two of the TIMS contests had three candidates for a single...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3788220