[EM] Proportional election method needed for the Czech Greenparty - Council elections

[Terry Bouricius]

Ralph and Peter,

About the use of Approval... Ralph wrote...
<snip
"I am not sure if it is used much in politics either.  A variant is
used for election of the general secretary in the UN."
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The only recent use of Approval voting in governmental elections (I 
believe) was in the waning days of the Soviet Union, where voters were 
instructed to cross out the names of DIS-approved candidates, leaving each 
ballot with approved choices from each voter. None of the countries that 
emerged from the broken up Soviet Union kept that system, however.

A feature of Approval to be aware of  is the readily apparent strategy of 
disapproving closely competitive contenders to one's favored choice, with 
the potential that it may revert to de-facto plurality voting in some 
implementations. Because strategy is so much less obvious under Condorcet, 
and the fact that a single ballot can be used to elect both a president 
and the broader body (using single-seat Condorcet tally for the one and 
STV PR for the others) this is probably easier and better. However, unlike 
a society election (where citizens can't "quit"), elections within a party 
may have different goals in terms of proportional representation.

Terry Bouricius