Sequential proportional approval voting: Difference between revisions

'''Sequential proportional approval voting''' (SPAV) or reweighted approval voting (RAV) is an [[electoral system]] that extends the concept of [[approval voting]] to a multiple winner election. Proposed by Danish statistician [[Thorvald N. Thiele]] in the early 1900s,<ref>E. Phragmén (1899): "Till frågan om en proportionell valmetod." Statsvetenskaplig tidskrifts Vol. 2, No. 2: pp 87-95 [http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/st/article/view/1949/1528&usg=ALkJrhiuUQ1zCqZHnca_-iAmk1KpNqMtmg]</ref> it was used (with adaptations for party lists) in Sweden for a short period after 1909.<ref>Aziz, H., Brill, M., Conitzer, V., et al. (2014): "Justified Representation in Approval-Based Committee Voting", arXiv:1407.8269 p5 [https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.8269]</ref>