[EM] electing a variable number of seats

[Brandon Wiley]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <
km-elmet at broadpark.no> wrote:

> Brandon Wiley wrote:
>
>> While I think Range Voting would work great here, if for some reason it
>> doesn't go over (sometimes people think it seems complicated) then Approval
>> Voting would also be very easy to use. Again just rank candidates by number
>> of approvals and take the top X.
>>
>
> Both bloc Range and Approval will let a majority determine the composition
> of the entire board. Therefore, I don't think that would be very
> proportional.
>

Well RRV <http://rangevoting.org/RRV.html> is the PR-compatible method for
using Range Voting. The debate of PR vs. non-PR multi-winner voting methods
is an issue in itself, but either way you can use Range Voting, either RRV
or simply RV, respectively.
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