[EM] Approval + state delegates

[Ted Stern]

There's been a lot of discussion recently about replacing the US Electoral
College with a national popular vote.

As an alternative, I was thinking about how Approval voting might be used
with the electoral college as it stands, but combined with some form of
proportional representation.

For example, if a state has M delegates, and the AV winner A receives X out
of N votes, A would receive (X/N) * M delegates, rounded to the nearest
integer.

For remaining delegates, any ballots approving A would be removed (i.e.
reweighted to zero), and the approval winner B on the remaining ballots,
receiving an approval score of Y, would receive (Y/N) * M electors, rounded
to the nearest integer, or the next lower integer if the sum of delegates
would be greater than M.

If any delegates remain after highest remnant approval drops below 1/(2N),
those remaining should be given to A, the original approval winner.

This process could be used in the Democratic primary or in the general
election.  For US presidential elections, there would be no incentive to
allocate electors proportionally until a certain threshold of other states
did so also.

However, if such an agreement was successful, candidates would have a
chance of winning (or losing) delegates in every state, making a full
50-state campaign necessary.
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