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The principle of Fair Share Voting is: Spending for all, in proportion to their votes. That is, 60% of the voters spend 60% of the money, not all of it. A project needs grants offered by many voters to prove it's a common good worth group funds. So a voter’s grant is a small share of a project’s price. Voting is easy. Simply rank your choices, as in IRV. Your civic duty to vote is done. Then your ballot offers a grant to each of your top choices—as many as it can afford. A tally of all the ballots drops the project with the fewest offers. This repeats 'til all projects still in the tally are fully funded.4 Some Merits of Fair Share Voting (FSV) FSV is fair to a project of any and to its voters It takes a costly offer to vote for a costly project so A ballot's money can help more low-cost projects. This motivates a voter to give his top ranks to the projects he feels give the most joy per dollar. Votes can move from losers to backup choices so: Voters split by similar proposals can unite on one And the set of winners gets stronger support because the ballots leave few wasted votes. 22 Ranked Choice Ballots A simple board can serve about thirty voters. Big groups use paper ballots, or screens and printouts, then tally on computer. Risk-limiting audits need well- protected paper ballots to catch frauds and errors.2  Yes-or-no ballots badly oversimplify most issues. They often highlight just two factions: “us versus them.” They tend to polarize and harden conflicts. O Ranked choice ballots reduce those problems. They let you rank your 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd etc. Ranks can reveal a great variety of opinions. Surveys find most voters like the power to rank candidates.3 Party Menu Fill only one “O” on each line. Best Ranks Worst Desserts 1st 2nd 5th 6th 1 Fruit & Nut Platter O O O O O 12 Chocolate Brownies O O O O O O 12 Choc. Chip Muffins O O O O O O 4 Choc. Fudge FroYos O O O O O O 1 Choc. Cheesecake O O O O O O 6 Choc. Mousse Hearts O O O O O O All are extra large orders for group discounts. 43
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