the island nation of nauru uses a variant called the dowdall system: the voter awards the first-ranked candidate with 1 point, while the 2nd-ranked candidate receives ½ a point, the 3rd-ranked candidate receives ⅓ of a point, etc. (a similar system of weighting lower-preference votes was used in the 1925 oklahoma primary electoral system.) an important difference of this method from the others is that the number of points assigned to each preference does not depend on the number of candidates. using the above example, in nauru the point distribution among the five candidates would be this: