The Excess Method: A Multiwinner Approval Voting Procedure to Allocate Wasted Votes

• In Event: Voting Procedures and the Personal Vote

Brief Overview

To elect multiple winners to a committee or council, the excess method allocates approval votes—beyond those that a candidate needs to get elected— to a voter’s as-yet-unelected approved candidates.

Authors

• Steven J. Brams, New York University

• Markus Brill, Technische Universität Berlin