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3 unusual facts about Approval voting


Approval voting

A form of approval voting is used by the Web site TV Tropes for certain decisions, including names of pages that need to be renamed.

Unrestricted domain —A voter may have a preference ordering among the alternatives.

In the 13th through 18th centuries, the Republic of Venice elected the Doge of Venice using a multi-stage process that featured random selection and voting which allowed approval of multiple candidates and required a supermajority.



see also

Ordinarium Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae

Approval voting was used in the forty-one conclaves from 1294 to 1621, after which it was replaced with a categoric vote by Eterni Pacis (1621) and Decet Romanum Pontificem (1622).