[EM] How to make a summable version of STV

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

fsimmons at pcc.edu wrote:
> Kristopfer.
> 
> Look at it this way, the process of amalgamating the factions is a
> low pass filter that gets rid of some fo the noise.  So why not
> consider the resulting ballots as the "true" ballots, and the
> associated weights tell how many of them there are of each kinsd.
> STV can be done with these new true ballots, Droop quotas and all.

Sure, but these reformulated criteria are less useful than the ordinary 
criteria. For instance, the Droop proportionality criterion means that 
voters don't have to coordinate the ordering of their preferred set 
(except regarding vote management). In the case of an absolutely 
preferred candidate like X, if your low-pass filter is in place, the 
voters now have to remember to not rank X top, which weakens the 
guarantee given by the DPC.