* Approval voting, a non-ranking system

Approval voting treats each candidate as an essentially separate question, " Do you approve of this person for the job?

Approval voting can be considered a form of range voting, with the range restricted to two values, 0 and 1, or a form of Majority Judgment, with the grades restricted to " Good " and " Poor ".

Approval voting can also be compared to plurality voting, without the rule that discards ballots which vote for more than one candidate.

Approval voting ballots show, for each office being contested, a list of the candidates running for that seat.

Approval voting has been adopted by the Mathematical Association of America ( 1986 ), the Institute of Management Sciences ( 1987 ) ( now the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences ), the American Statistical Association ( 1987 ), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( 1987 ).

Approval voting can be considered to be range voting with only two levels: approved ( 1 ) and disapproved ( 0 ).

Some methods, like Approval voting, requests information than can't be unambiguously inferred from a single set of ordinal preferences.

The same problem exists in Approval voting, where one has to make assumptions as to how the voters will place their approval cutoffs.

Approval voting can also reduce the impact of the " spoiler effect ".

Approval voting uses such multiple votes.

* Approval voting, a voting system

Approval is determined by at least 50 % + 1 of the membership voting approval.

Approval voting reduces the vote-splitting effect compared to plurality voting, but vote splitting still occurs because the full preferences of voters are not collected.

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* Approval voting

Approval voting is a system in which the voter can approve of ( or vote for ) any number of candidates on a ballot.

Note that this failure of Approval depends upon a particular generalization of the Condorcet criterion, which may not be accepted by all voting theorists.

Approval is still needed for the closure of the A344 and two nearby byways, which are popular with off-road enthusiasts whose objections may further jeopardise the scheme.

A correct delimiter is required for a news posting program to receive the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval.

Approval in a referendum is necessary in order to amend the Australian constitution.

In the United Kingdom it is necessary to meet the requirements of the IVA ( Individual vehicle Approval ) regulations.

The current test for this is Individual Vehicle Approval ( IVA ), which has replaced Single Vehicle Approval ( SVA ).

Once this document, called a Qualification Approval Guide ( QAG ), has been approved, all future devices conforming to the QAG are automatically approved and individual evaluation is neither required nor available.

Approval by an IRB, or ethics board, is necessary before all but the most informal medical research can begin.

Approval for ITU region 2 ( North and South America and the Pacific ) is pending amendments to existing international agreements.

Permission to put a subject under surveillance is granted by the Target Approval and Review Committee.

Moreover the rendered data is sent directly to the Approval process that must implement a user interface to show those data on the display and allow him / her to approve / reject the proof and eventually annotate it using digital signature.

Approval is also given by the council to all of the sovereign's actions as head of state.

Those airmen not eligible, are still able to get the surgery done at their own expense by a civilian surgeon, but must first be approved ( Approval is based on the same USAF-RS program ).

* where the export authorization is a FMS Case, the foreign government must have “ Third Party Transfer Approval ” from the U. S. Government ;

The FADI is since 2004, among the top ten ranking institutions that offer law classes in the state of Sao Paulo in the Examination of Approval for the occupation of the Bar Association of Brazil.

* Elliot Abrams, AccuWeather Chief Forecaster and Senior Vice President, is both a Certified Consulting Meteorologist and a Seal of Approval holder for both radio and television from the American Meteorological Society.

Michael Hirschorn ’ s Ish Entertainment is currently developing a TV series for Bravo inspired by the magazine ’ s popular weekly Approval Matrix feature.

The equivalent process of testing and certification for conformance to technical standards is usually known as Type Approval in English-language jurisdictions.

To the general public, however, the AMS is best known for its " Seal of Approval " to television and radio meteorologists.

It is worth noting that many broadcasters who obtained the Seal of Approval did in fact have formal degrees in meteorology or related sciences and / or certifications from accredited University programs.

Note: The NWA Seal of Approval is issued by the National Weather Association and is independent of the AMS.

Upgrading from the original Seal of Approval is not required.

They are the recognized authority for light pollution and are responsible for the " Fixture Seal of Approval program " which offers a third party rating system judging the " sky-friendlyness " of lighting fixtures and in 2009, opened a Public Policy and Government Affairs office in Washington, D. C to inform law makers and lobbyists on energy efficiency of outdoor lighting and to promote the adoption of energy saving measures.

The Skyline GT-R was never manufactured outside of Japan, and the sole export markets were Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, in 1991, and the UK ( in 1997, thanks to the Single Vehicle Approval scheme ) as used Japanese imports.

* Approval proofer, an output device used in Prepress proofing

* STCA ( Subject to Council Approval ) is an abbreviation commonly used in real estate.

Although the STB changed their logo in 1997, the STB Act continues to protect the Merlion symbol .< ref > Singapore Tourism Board: " Use of the Merlion Symbol " < http :// app-stg. stb. gov. sg / asp / form / form01. asp ></ ref > Approval must be received from STB before it can be used.

An Investigational Device Exemption ( IDE ) allows the investigational device to be used in a clinical study in order to collect safety and effectiveness data required to support a Premarket Approval ( PMA ) application or a