Toby, I looked at your paper about proportional range voting. I like your explanation and insights.
The topic has come up here from time. See for example http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2010-May/026425.html On Warren Smith's Range Voting site (http://RangeVoting.org) the obvious range generalization of the sequential version of PAV is advocated because it is computationally tractable even for large numbers of seats. He calls it RRV. A recent discussion of ideas for dealing with the intractability of our non-sequential versions includes http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2011-June/027593.html Also pointed out in the Mr. Soda thread is the good old idea of using the non-sequential version to choose from all nominated slates, since the number of nominations can never be large enough to make the problem intractable. Andy Jenning's contribution http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2011-June/027482.html has a link to a survey article that might interest you. I hope that you continue sharing your ideas with us! > 3. Proportional Range and Approval Voting (Toby Pereira) > > From: Toby Pereira > > Hello. I've read with interest some of the posts in here over > the last few > months from the archive so thought I might join and post! I got > interested in > voting systems because of the Alternative Vote (or Instant > Runoff) referendum we > had in the UK. I didn't think it was much of an improvement over > our current > system of First Past the Post (Plurality) and started looking at > other systems. > > I've always been a supporter of Proportional Representation, > with Single > Transferable Vote probably the "main" one that gets talked > about, in the UK at > least (and I'm not a fan of party lists). I?came across?Forest > Simmons's > Proportional Approval Voting, which is very interesting, > although if you type > "Proportional Range Voting" into Google you get surprisingly > little. Anyway, I > looked?into Proportional Approval/Range Voting myself and came > up with my own > systems of them. (I don't think anyone else has described the > same systems - > apologies if they have). So I thought I might see what people > here make of them. > http://www.tobypereira.co.uk/voting.html > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > electorama.com/attachments/20110702/60e68b01/attachment.htm> > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Election-Methods mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.electorama.com/listinfo.cgi/election-methods- > electorama.com > > End of Election-Methods Digest, Vol 85, Issue 2 > *********************************************** > ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
