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.
@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