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Sequential proportional approval voting (SPAV) or reweighted approval voting (RAV)[1] is an electoral system that extends the concept of approval voting to a multiple winner election. It is a simplified version of proportional approval voting. It is a special case of Thiele's voting rules, proposed by Danish statistician Thorvald N. Thiele in the early 1900s.[2] It was used (with adaptations for party lists) in Sweden from 1909 to 1921, when it was replaced by a cruder "party-list" style system as it was easier to calculate,[3][4] and is still used for some local elections.