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This paper proposes a new approach to allow the voters to express their preferences on a set of candidates in ranked voting systems. This approach assumes that the votes of all voters have not equal importance and there is a priority among voters. Here, voters are classified into several groups in terms of their priorities that the vote of a higher category has a greater important than that of lower category. Then, the existing ranking methods are extended to discriminate efficient candidates in our proposed model. Moreover, a new criterion to obtain a total ranking by evaluating different ranking methods based on classical voting system is given. Finally the proposed method is illustrated with an application example and shows to be effective and practical.
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The author would like to express their sincerest thanks to the anonymous referees for the careful reading and helpful which helped in improving throughout of this paper. Finally, the author greatly appreciates to the office of vice chancellor for research of Islamic Azad University-Qamshahr Branch, for financially support.
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Ebrahimnejad, A. A new approach for ranking of candidates in voting systems. OPSEARCH 49, 103–115 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12597-012-0070-9
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