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'''Proportional approval voting''' (PAV) is a theoretical [[voting system]] for multiple-winner elections, in which each voter can vote for as many or as few candidates as the voter chooses. It was developed by the Danish polymath Thorvald N. Thiele<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.math.uu.se/~svante/papers/sjV6.pdf |title=Proportionella valmetoder |date=2012-08-20|last=Janson |first=Svante|journal=Typescript, Uppsala|access-date=2020-02-28}}</ref> and then rediscovered by Forest Simmons in
PAV works by looking at how "satisfied" each voter is with each potential result or outcome of the of the election.
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Both the [[Phragmén's Method]] and [[w:Sequential_proportional_approval_voting|Sequential Proportional Approval Voting]] are very similar systems invented in the early 1900s. [[Reweighted Range Voting]] is the extension of this concept to [[Score Voting]]. These systems all derive their reweighting theory as the natural extension of the [[Jefferson Method]] to [[Multi-Member System]]s.
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