About Two-Pass Score

Two-Pass Score is a voting method for electing representatives (individuals, groups, parties).

It processes the score ballots twice - first it sums up the scores, then it assigns votes.

It works like this (algorithm optimized for hand tallying 0-to-N score ballots):

• sum up the scores, sort the candidates from strongest to weakest
• for each score S from 1 to N
• put all ballots into one pile
• for each candidate C from strongest to weakest
• sort thru the pile and remove the ballots where candidate C scored S or higher
• the number of ballots removed is the number of votes added to candidate C
• sum up the votes
• votes represent the weight of candidate's voice

Two-Pass Score is the score version of Two-Pass Approval.