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Score voting is a way of electing candidates, in which the voters score each candidate on a scale of 0 to 5 (or another scale), and after adding up the points given to each candidate by all voters, the candidate with the most points wins. It is used in elections without proportional representation.

Approval voting is a form of Score voting that uses a scale of 0 to 1.

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  • STAR Voting ballot with 6 generic candidate names, and 5 bubbles filled in, showing blank vote, tied vote, and scores that no candidate received

    STAR Voting uses a standard Score Voting ballot. The counting method adds an extra step to yield the preference winner between the top two scoring candidates overall.

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