[EM] Proportional Range and Approval Voting

[fsimmons at pcc.edu]

Toby,

I looked at your paper about proportional range voting.  I like your explanation and insights.  

The topic has come up here from time. See for example

http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2010-May/026425.html

On Warren Smith's Range Voting site (http://RangeVoting.org) the obvious range generalization of the 
sequential version of PAV is advocated because it is computationally tractable even for large numbers of 
seats.  He calls it RRV.

A recent discussion of ideas for dealing with the intractability of our non-sequential versions includes 

http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2011-June/027593.html

Also pointed out in the Mr. Soda thread is the good old idea of using the non-sequential version to 
choose from all nominated slates, since the number of nominations can never be large enough to make 
the problem intractable.

Andy Jenning's contribution

http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2011-June/027482.html

has a link to a survey article that might interest you.

I hope that you continue sharing your ideas with us!

> 3. Proportional Range and Approval Voting (Toby Pereira)
> 
> From: Toby Pereira 
> 
> Hello. I've read with interest some of the posts in here over 
> the last few 
> months from the archive so thought I might join and post! I got 
> interested in 
> voting systems because of the Alternative Vote (or Instant 
> Runoff) referendum we 
> had in the UK. I didn't think it was much of an improvement over 
> our current 
> system of First Past the Post (Plurality) and started looking at 
> other systems.
> 
> I've always been a supporter of Proportional Representation, 
> with Single 
> Transferable Vote probably the "main" one that gets talked 
> about, in the UK at 
> least (and I'm not a fan of party lists). I?came across?Forest 
> Simmons's 
> Proportional Approval Voting, which is very interesting, 
> although if you type 
> "Proportional Range Voting" into Google you get surprisingly 
> little. Anyway, I 
> looked?into Proportional Approval/Range Voting myself and came 
> up with my own 
> systems of them. (I don't think anyone else has described the 
> same systems - 
> apologies if they have). So I thought I might see what people 
> here make of them. 
> http://www.tobypereira.co.uk/voting.html
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