No one on this list seemed to find the time to look up this reference to a better additive proportional representation system using approval ballots that I pointed out to this list a couple of months ago, so I took some time today to post it and point to its URL. Hopefully its authors will not mind my putting a copy of it on my electionmathematics.org web site.
"Satisfaction Approval Voting" is a new proportional representation approval voting method, devised by political scientist Steven J. Brams, Department of Politics, New York University and D. Marc Kilgour, Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University. Unlike instant runoff voting, Satisfaction Approval Voting (SAV) can use existing ballot layouts, is precinct-summable (additive), and treats all voters equally and fairly. This paper on Satisfaction Approval Voting was presented at the January 2010 Midwest Political Science Association Conference (I was unable to attend the particular panel myself but met the two authors briefly while there.) http://conference.mpsanet.org/Online/Sections.aspx?section=24&session=16 http://electionmathematics.org/em-IRV/SatisfactApprovalVoting-BramsKilgour.pdf Hopefully, I will find time sometime this summer to explain this method in a simple way that everyone can understand in case the authors' paper is difficult for some to read. Cheers, Kathy Dopp ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
