Weighted voting is most useful for ‘taking the temperature of a group’ as it works towards consensus. It is also sometimes used to reduce the number of ideas or select one from a list. Because weighted voting is based on the positions and preferences of group members and involves neither selection criteria nor discussion, it seldom produces a satisfactory agreement by itself.
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