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  @mendicant As I mentioned in another thread recently there is this score/MMP system, which I also made a video of.

  Basically, you give a score to all the candidates standing locally, and can also give a separate score to any parties or independent candidates standing in the wider region.

  The local candidate with the highest score (or STAR winner or whatever) is elected. Then the local areas are combined into one larger region for the top-up phase, A voter's party scores are given to all candidates standing for that party outside their local area. The rest of the seats are allocated in the most proportional way possible given those already elected. Probably using something like Phragmén.

  Works with approval voting too.

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  @toby-pereira Yes, and if only extremists show up, they deserve the power.

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  Hopefully it's now been sent.

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  @cfrank said in We should probably have a status update at some point:

  The tabulation method cannot be centrally controlled as long as the votes are public. The only thing I want the council to possibly do is make an effort to verify, organize and present the results. We do definitely want a way to organize and separately analyze different groups of ballots.

  I hear ya, I'd just hope that could all happen transparently in the forum threads. Any results I posted would link to something like this, where people can paste in ballots, analyze the code, fork the code, etc, so any forum user could check my work (and if they wantm retabulate them in different methods or filtering voters by origin, etc). https://codepen.io/karmatics/pen/ExKZVjM

  I mean, I don't care if council members want to come in and verify them, but I honestly doubt they'd want to do it as anything other than regular forum participants. This stuff just seems to lend itself to forums

  I could see this leading to something more official.... built in widgets and visualizers, pinned threads, permanent pages, etc, and in that case it makes some sense for the council to be able to approve things, but let's just see how this goes first.

  Hopefully if the council does meet soon, they can concentrate on the issues such as entry point, categories/tags, etc... changes that @Jack-Waugh will need to make and I think he wants others to make the decisions before doing so.