 Negative voting is tantamount to allowing the voters to support either a single candidate or all but one candidate (taking a point away from a candidate \(C\) is equivalent to giving one point to all candidates except \(C\)). That is, the voters are asked to choose a set of candidates that they support, where the choice is between sets consisting of a single candidate or sets consisting of all except one candidate. The next voting method generalizes this idea by allowing voters to choose any subset of candidates: 