[EM] Satisfaction Approval Voting - A Better Proportional Representation Electoral Method

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

Kathy Dopp wrote:
> No one on this list seemed to find the time to look up this reference
> to a better additive proportional representation system using approval
> ballots that I pointed out to this list a couple of months ago, so I
> took some time today to post it and point to its URL.  Hopefully its
> authors will not mind my putting a copy of it on my
> electionmathematics.org web site.
> 
> "Satisfaction Approval Voting" is a new proportional representation
> approval voting method, devised by political scientist Steven J.
> Brams, Department of Politics, New York University and D. Marc
> Kilgour, Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
> 
> Unlike instant runoff voting, Satisfaction Approval Voting (SAV) can
> use existing ballot layouts, is precinct-summable (additive), and
> treats all voters equally and fairly. This paper on Satisfaction
> Approval Voting was presented at the January 2010 Midwest Political
> Science Association Conference (I was unable to attend the particular
> panel myself but met the two authors briefly while there.)
> 
> http://conference.mpsanet.org/Online/Sections.aspx?section=24&session=16
> 
> http://electionmathematics.org/em-IRV/SatisfactApprovalVoting-BramsKilgour.pdf
> 
> Hopefully, I will find time sometime this summer to explain this
> method in a simple way that everyone can understand in case the
> authors' paper is difficult for some to read.

Is this SNTV with a cumulative ballot? I.e. each voter votes for as many 
candidates as he wants, and each voter gives 1/k point to each approved 
candidate, where k is the number of candidates he approved; then the 
candidates with highest score wins?