# Voting types

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Our governance platform supports a number of different voting types
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### Single choice voting

Each voter may select a single choice to give his total voting power to.

### Approval voting

Each voter may select ("approve") any number of choices, each selected choice will receive the full voting power.

### Quadratic voting

Each voter may spread voting power across any number of choices. The results are calculated quadratically, you can test out these calculations here <https://wtfisqf.com/>

### Ranked choice voting (IRV)

Each voter may rank any number of choices. Votes are initially counted for each voter's top choice. If a candidate has more than half of the vote based on first-choices, that choice wins. If not, then the choice with the fewest votes is eliminated. The voters who selected the defeated choice as a first choice then have their votes added to the totals of their next choice. This process continues until a choice has more than half of the votes. When the field is reduced to two, it has become an "instant runoff" that allows a comparison of the top two choice head-to-head.

### Weighted voting

Each voter may spread voting power across any number of choices.