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ap·proval vot·ing

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  1. approval votingnoun

    A voting system in which each voter approves as many candidates as he wishes, and the candidate most approved of wins.

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  1. Approval voting

    Approval voting is a single-winner voting system used for elections. Each voter may vote for as many of the candidates as the voter wishes. The winner is the candidate receiving the most votes. Each voter may vote for any combination of candidates and may give each candidate at most one vote. Approval voting treats each candidate as an essentially separate question, "Do you approve of this person for the job?" Each voter may cast one vote per candidate, either for or against, and whoever receives the most 'Yes' votes wins. The system was described in 1976 by Guy Ottewell and also by Robert J. Weber, who coined the term "approval voting." It was more fully published in 1978 by political scientist Steven Brams and mathematician Peter Fishburn.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of approval voting in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of approval voting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of approval voting in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Lewis:

    We just went through a public comment session where two times as many people called in supporting ranked-choice voting as called in supporting the approval voting alternative.

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