| Article ID: | iaor1991629 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 67 |
| End Page Number: | 80 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1990 |
| Journal: | Interfaces |
| Authors: | Brams Steven J. |
| Keywords: | programming: integer |
The author designed a voting system for a professional association to ensure the equitable representation of different interests on its governing board. Approval voting, whereby voters can vote for as many candidates as they approve of, is combined with constraints on the numbers that can be elected from different categories of members to find the set of candidates most approved of by all voters, subject to the constraints.