We study information aggregation with a biased election organizer who recruits voters at some cost. Voters are symmetric ex-ante and prefer policy a in state a and policy b in state B, but the organizer prefers policy a regardless of the state. Each recruited voter observes a private signal...

We extend approval voting so as to elect multiple candidates, who may be either individuals or members of a political party, in rough proportion to their approval in the electorate. We analyze two divisor methods of apportionment, first proposed by Jefferson and Webster, that iteratively...

In using approval voting to elect multiple winners to a committee or council, it is desirable that excess votes — approvals beyond those that a candidate needs to win a seat — not be wasted. The excess method does this by sequentially allocating excess votes to a voter’s as-yet-unelected...