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Article: Bloc Vote
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- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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Bloc Vote
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The term
bloc voting
(or
block voting
) refers to a set of voting systems used to elect several representatives from one constituency. Although there are significant variations in types of bloc voting, they all allow voters to cast multiple votes for one or more candidates and have the potential to result in several officials being elected based on one specific distribution of voter choices. Among the variables associated with different types of bloc voting are the number of votes available to each voter, the possibility of candidate ranking, and the decision rule for determining winners (Farrell 2001). These variables have consequences with regards to the ...
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