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| '''Allocation voting''' is any ] in which voters are assigned a number of "points" or other ], and are expected to allocate these among a number of alternatives. Unlike ] the numbers do not represent ranks but weights. | |||
| As a simple example, a system might allocate each voter five points or votes and permit them to apply them to a number of candidates for office. A more complex example might permit both positive and also negative votes, so that ] was also supported in the same system. asasally, an ] scheme is just an allocation voting scheme where each voter has as many votes as there are options, and can allocate only one vote to each such option. | |||
| === Issues === | |||
| Allocation systems tend to encourage ] thinking and may be more applicable to situations where tolerances and preferences are entwined very deeply. According to some ]s, such as ], such entwined situations are inherently symptoms of ]. Put more simply: by encouraging voters to think in terms of tradeoffs, they abandon ]s and think in terms more of advantage, encouraging what Jacobs calls the "]" moral syndrome. This she contrasts to the "]" of leaders and moral examples, in which tradeoffs are not up to the voter but the leader, who is trusted to make very difficult moral decisions, such as when to lie to the public. Her view is best described as "classical" as it builds on observations on these matters back at least to ] and ]. | |||
| By contrast, the ] ] tends to accept the substitution of ]s for ] as a general optimization, and is more accepting of such methods as an allocation voting scheme. | |||
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