Adam wrote- I consider the Open List/STV multi-winner debate to be analogous to the Approval/Condorcet debate in single-winner elections. Condorcet may be better, but Approval is a lot simpler and you could get it implemented more easily. --- D- For newer folks- there is also Proxy P.R. -- each winner has a voting power equal to the number of votes he/she finally receives. That is ALL voters can have somebody represent them (but may NOT be their first choice, of course)
Simplest case- 2 member legislative body Voting powers example- 51 percent of all the votes 49 percent of all the votes Increase the members of the legislative body, as necessary. At some point there might be districts to avoid huge ballots. Condorcet for the single winner case is the end case of the general case of electing M choices. All combinations of --- Test Winners versus Test Loser (Other Test Losers) A Test Winner is a general case Condorcet Winner if he/she wins in ALL of his/her TW combinations. As with single winner methods a tiebreaker (with all the standard strategy problems) would generally be needed.
