Andy Jennings wrote:
Another way to elect a variable number of seats is to use Monroe's method.
That's also true for my CFC-Kemeny method, which would deal with ranking without having to translate the rankings into ratings, but doing a CFC-Kemeny election is impractical at the least.
For that matter, every type of combinatorial optimization PR method produces a score associated with its assignment. That is, a method that tries every council and then picks the one with least (or greatest) score. If the calculation does not make use of the number-of-seats parameter, it *should* be commensurable across numbers of seats unless the scores become subject to some sort of indirect "inflation" due to the additional number of seats in the assignments it considers.
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