Combined approval voting (CAV) is an electoral system where each voter may express approval, disapproval, or indifference toward each candidate.[1] The winner is the candidate with the highest score, which is determined by subtracting the number of approval votes by the number of disapproval votes.
It is a cardinal system and a variant of score voting. It has also been referred to as dis&approval voting,[2][3] balanced approval voting (BAV),[4][5] approval with abstention option (AWAO),[6] true weight voting (TWV1),[7][8] or evaluative voting (EV)[9] (though the latter can also be used for variants with more than 3 values.) It has also been called net approval voting[10][11][12] (though this term has a different definition in the context of approval-based committee selection).[13][14]
k candidates ... each voter under CAV has k votes and can, with respect to each candidate, either cast one vote in favor of this candidate, or cast one vote against this candidate, or abstain from voting for this candidate. The outcome of a CAV ballot is the candidate with the largest net vote total (algebraic sum of votes in favor and votes against)
The three levels have the following interpretation: 1 means approval, 0 means indifference, abstention or 'do not know', and -1 means disapproval. ... We investigate the 'dis&approval rule', that selects the candidates who obtain the largest difference between the number of positive votes and the number of negative votes.
The sum is computed for each candidate and the winner is the candidate with the largest net vote.
the votes For and Against each candidate are tallied and a net vote for each candidate is computed as the difference
Disapprovals are subtracted from approvals for each candidate, and candidate with highest margin of net-approval wins.
TWV1 allows voters only three score values: -1, 0, and +1.
the Candidate having the highest positive (or least negative) total is the winner
The alternative that maximizes the sum wins. ... I argue for a three valued scale for general elections. ... with the scale (-1 (against), 0 (neutral), +1 (for)). In a committee of experts a more differentiated rule, EV-5, with the scale (-2,- 1,0,+1,+2) may be appropriate. ... A great advantage of EV is that the voter has no strategic incentive to withdraw his vote from the candidates he likes best.
you vote up, down, or neutral on each candidate. The candidate with the most approvals minus specific disapprovals wins.
Just two lines in the ballot: who you're for, and who you're against. The difference between 'for' and 'against' votes gives the candidate's net approval vote. Highest net approval vote wins.
able to indicate approval or disapproval of any number of candidates ... as additive votes to show approval and subtractive votes to show disapproval, where the candidate shown to have the highest net approval is the winner.
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