[EM] Multiwinner methods and summability
Kristofer Munsterhjelm
km-elmet at broadpark.no
Fri Feb 6 14:14:27 PST 2009
This is a simple question: say that you have a multiwinner method that
reduces to Condorcet in the single-winner case, and that this single
winner case uses a Condorcet matrix, so that it's properly summable in
this case. Then say that the method can be counted in the districts
using an (n+1) dimension matrix for the multiwinner election where the
council is of size n.
Is this (hypothetical) method summable? The size of the matrix depends
(superpolynomially) upon the number of winners to elect, but not on the
number of voters or candidates.
(Whether or not it's summable, it probably wouldn't be practical in the
real world; with a parliament or council of 100 candidates, the matrix
would be 101-dimensional and thus far too unwieldy.)
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