[EM] Place Votes and Sets in p.r. elections

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Droop or Hare Quotas can be connected with a Place Votes table and Sets 
(mainly for p.r. elections with a fixed number of at large or district 
winners).

Simple extreme case- 1 winner

     1 2
26 AB
25 BA
49 C
100

The AB set gets a majority after 2 places.

The sets (getting a Droop or Hare quota), of course, may become larger in 
p.r. elections (with multiple winners).

           Place Votes 

     1   2    3   4   5   6   etc.
A
B
C
D
E
F

Example 

N1-N6 numbers of votes

     123

N1 ABC
N2 ACB
N3 BAC
N4 BCA
N5 CAB
N6 CBA

Assume that the N1-N6 sum equals or is more than a Droop or Hare quota.  Such 
set of voters should get at least 1 seat (if there are unfilled seats after 
1st place votes or 1st plus 2nd place votes NOT using such set of votes).  

One way to specify the winner(s) would be to use the sums for former place(s) 
with the most winning-- i.e. in the example-- sum the 1st and 2nd place votes 
for each choice.

A separate listing of political parties/ independents might be done with the 
same set principle to apportion seats (and then do the math for individual 
candidates within the set) (which would allow supporters of smaller parties 
to vote their true choices first).

Most elections would be needed to be computerized in view of the set math 
involved with a large number of votes and the rather large number of possible 
combinations (depending on how many voters truncate their votes).

I would guess that 4 or 5 candidates (and place votes) at most would make up 
a set to get 1 or more seats (such as if a small party was somehow very split 
into multiple circular factions).

For accuracy, the winners should have a voting power in the legislative body 
equal to the votes they get.

The above is probably a little more accurate than using simple IRV to drop 
candidates.

As I have mentioned earlier, technically the YES/NO and Head to Head tests 
also apply to multiple winners in p.r. legislative body elections.  

Comment on Droop- I highly question the use of Droop in the U.S.A. for my 
standard reason- lots of U.S.A. folks are really math deficient.

The Hare Quota (total votes/ total seats) at least has a chance for p.r. 
elections if quotas are going to be used to get p.r. seats.