[EM] name of multi-winner method

[Diego Santos]

I think this method is Warren Smith's multiwinner "poorest first"asset
voting with predefined lists.

2008/11/16 Jobst Heitzig <heitzig-j at web.de>

> Hi Kristofer,
>
>  That's just the multiwinner adaptation of IRV.
>>
>
> I don't think so! The point is that the *candidates* provide the ranking
> from which the vote transfers are determined. The idea is to keep it
> maximally simple for the voters: they still vote for only one candidate.
>
> I now realize that it is also different from STV in an important respect:
> there is no transfer of excess votes!
>
> What I want with this method is a maximally simple multi-winner method that
> does not rely on lists but is focussed on individual candidates and that
> makes sure that all large-enough minorities are represented. It is not
> important that it results in proportionality, hence it needs no transfer of
> excess votes.
>
> Perhaps this is actually a new method? If so, what would we call it?
>
> Jobst
>
> I don't think it has a
>
>> formal name, but here's how I've defined (naive) multiwinner adaptations
>> in my simulations:
>>
>> Take single-winner method X. Produce a social ordering, then if there are
>> k winners to be elected, pick the k highest ranked on the social ordering,
>> and elect them.
>>
>> The social ordering of IRV is opposite of its elimination order: the one
>> who's eliminated in the first round is ranked last, and so on.
>>
>> --
>>
>> That is, unless "the next candidate on her list" is the next candidate on
>> the *candidate*'s list, in which case it would be a sort of
>> STV-Asset/Party-list hybrid.
>>
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