<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class="">I am a new subscriber, and I am not an expert.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am looking for multi-winner election with fair proportional representation. </div><div class="">I would like to find a method allowing voters to vote “transversally” through parties: it could decrease conflicts.</div><div class="">I would very appreciate if you can help me giving “guidelines”, explaining pros and cons, advising further readings. I thank you very much in advance.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like to open two issue:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">1. Best multi-winner ranked method for a PROPORTIONAL ASSEMBLY</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I read of <a href="http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/proportional.html" class="">CIVS</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_STV" class="">Schulze-STV</a>, and I thought they where the best for my case.</div><div class="">They seems better then “traditional” STV since they satisfy more criteria, with less strategic vote risk.</div><div class="">However I don’t understand differences among various condorcet’s multi-winner systems.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I knew also De Borda-based multiwinner systems: <font color="#0069d9" class=""><u class=""><a href="http://www.deborda.org/faq/" class="">http://www.deborda.org/faq/</a></u></font></div><div class=""><div class="">It seems De Borda got popular in the spanish party of Podemos recently: but they used a non-proportional De Borda to elect their national assembly (with <a href="https://vistalegre2.podemos.info/la-asamblea/#Sistema_de_votacion" class="">DesBorda</a> by Echenique).</div></div><div class="">Others in the same party proposed (failing) the <a href="https://forms.podemos.info/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/247-6edda8669dd26a992ea894158e3e3d91/2016/12/PropuestaPodemosEnMovimiento.pdf" class="">Dowdall variant</a> of De Borda (it is used in Nauru’s elections too). It seems it would have been more proportional (here a <a href="http://www.eldiario.es/politica/datos-cocina-votaciones-Podemos_0_612089572.html?utm_content=buffer93f9f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer" class="">simulation</a>, 3rd figure, compare <i class="">Sistema utilizado (</i>DesBorda) with <i class="">Propuesta de Anticapitalista</i> (Dowdall-Borda)).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However De Borda Institute recommends Quota Borda System <a href="http://www.deborda.org/faq/voting-systems/what-is-the-quota-borda-system-qbs.html" class="">http://www.deborda.org/faq/voting-systems/what-is-the-quota-borda-system-qbs.html</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Actually I think there are few differences, for voters, between a condorcet and a borda ballot (always numbering candidates). Is it?</div><div class="">But what are the difference in <i class="">results, </i>considering the proportional variants?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do you think PR-open list system helps more the more “conflictual” candidates (as could be the leader of each party, since they are overexposed to party electors “love” and to opposers “hate”)?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">2</b>. <b class="">Best multi-winner ranked method for a PROPORTIONAL MIXED-PARTIES GOVERNMENT</b></div><div class="">I was fascinated by De Borda Institute’s idea: a system to elect directly a mixed government, where voters choose candidates AND best offices for them.</div><div class="">They call it Matrix Vote <a href="http://www.deborda.org/faq/voting-systems/what-is-the-matrix-vote.html" class="">http://www.deborda.org/faq/voting-systems/what-is-the-matrix-vote.html</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Could be possible to reach this purpose also with other systems, for example Schulze-stv?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Thank you in advance</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Armando Pitocco<br class=""> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>