<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto">In Forest Simmons's system of Proportional Approval Voting each voter's satisfaction score is based on the number of elected candidates they voted for - 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... + 1/n and the set of candidates giving the highest mean satisfaction score wins. This could be changed to highest median. (Other versions such as 1 + 1/3 + 1/5 etc can be used.)</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">As I think has been dicussed in this mailing list, this can be extended to Range Voting by using harmonic numbers which give a continuous function for summing reciprocals. If you gave three elected candidates 3/10, 4/10 and 9/10, the number of elected candidates that you voted for would be considered to be 0.3+0.4+0.9=1.6. As before you could find the set of candidates with highest median satisfaction score.</div>
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