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A natural generalization of the mid-element representation is a skeletal representation. We propose here a generalization of the mid-element based Kantorovich method that exploits the unique topologic and geometric properties of the skeletal representation. The proposed method rests on a quasi-disjoint Voronoi decomposition of a domain induced by its skeletal representation. 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