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Generalizations of Divisor Methods to Approval and Score Voting

Computer Science and Game Theory 2017-01-24 v2

Abstract

We introduce several electoral systems for multi-winner elections with approval ballots, generalizing the classical methods of Sainte-Lagu\"e and D'Hondt. Our approach is based on the works of Phragm\'en and Thiele. In the last section we discuss possible generalizations to score voting.

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@article{arxiv.1701.02396,
  title  = {Generalizations of Divisor Methods to Approval and Score Voting},
  author = {Martin Djukanović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.02396},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

22 pages, 1 figure; changed step 2) in Algorithms 4,8,10 and Thiele (Ex. 5.1) to better suit our aims; new examples and some new notations