About Two-Pass Approval Voting

Two-Pass Approval Voting is a party-approval voting method.

It lets you support multiple parties without diluting your vote. It is suitable for single-issue politics.

It is proportional and majoritarian at the same time. It links ballots to parties the way to concentrate power in most dominant parties in each faction.

The 1st pass counts the approvals, the 2nd pass assigns votes.

It works like this:

• count the approvals, sort the parties from strongest to weakest
• on each ballot assign one vote to the strongest party approved on that ballot
• count the votes, allocate seats proportionally

• count the approvals, sort the parties from strongest to weakest
• put all ballots in one pile
• for each party (from strongest to weakest)
• remove all ballots that approve that party from the pile
• the number of ballots removed is the number of votes the party gets
• count the votes, allocate seats proportionally