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    Reflection Paper (Module4)

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    This reflection paper discusses different methods of apportionment, voting systems, and weighted voting systems. It covers the Hamilton method, Huntington-Hill number, and fairness measurement for apportionment. For voting systems, it describes majority voting, plurality voting, and the Borda count method. Finally, it explains that weighted voting systems assign different numbers of votes to participants, and that this can introduce bias since some voters have more influence over outcomes.

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    This reflection paper discusses different methods of apportionment, voting systems, and weighted voting systems. It covers the Hamilton method, Huntington-Hill number, and fairness measurement for apportionment. For voting systems, it describes majority voting, plurality voting, and the Borda count method. Finally, it explains that weighted voting systems assign different numbers of votes to participants, and that this can introduce bias since some voters have more influence over outcomes.

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    This reflection paper discusses different methods of apportionment, voting systems, and weighted voting systems. It covers the Hamilton method, Huntington-Hill number, and fairness measurement for apportionment. For voting systems, it describes majority voting, plurality voting, and the Borda count method. Finally, it explains that weighted voting systems assign different numbers of votes to participants, and that this can introduce bias since some voters have more influence over outcomes.

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    Reflection Paper (Module 4)

    I. Introduction to Apportionment
    In this lesson, I learned different methods of apportionment such as
    Hamilton method, Huntington-Hill number and Fairness measurement.
    Apportionment is a method of dividing a whole into various parts. In a democratic
    form of government, apportionment is essential to ensure equality of
    representation. It will able to determine the appropriate number of representative
    that a state, country or other subdivision should have. Hamilton method is based
    on standard divisor and standard quota of the population. Huntington-Hill method
    used when there is a need to add one item to one of the several groups in a
    population, then the additional add item is given to the highest Huntington-hill
    number. While fairness measurement used to measure the fairness of an
    apportionment.

    II. The Voting System


    In this lesson, it help me to understand the different methods of voting.
    Voting is our power as citizen in democratic country that enables us to choose the
    leaders of tomorrow. One of voting system is the majority system. The candidates
    should have more than 50% of the total voters. When no one will get majority votes
    means that no one win of the election. Unlike the plurality voting, candidates who
    receive the most votes he/she declared as the winner of the election. It means that
    the winner candidate does not need to have a majority of the votes. While Borda
    count method assigns a point value score to each place ranking vote a
    candidates receives. The candidate who receives the highest Borda count will be
    declared the winner. Borda count is the sum of weights given to a candidates.
    III. The Weighted Voting Systems
    I learned that using weighted voting system each voter is assigned a voting
    weight. Different participants may have different number of votes or voting weights.
    There are three pieces of information we need in weighted voting system; how
    many votes each voter has (w or weights of voters), how many voters there are (n
    players), and how many votes it takes to approve an issue (q or quota). I realized
    that this voting system is bias because voters have different amounts of influence
    in the outcome of an election. Example are the stockholders of a company that the
    more stock you own, the more say you have in decision making for the company.

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