Markus Schulze wrote : > Dear Stephane, > > John proposes that open party lists should be used and that the voters > should have the possibility to approve (resp. to rank) the candidates > and that the candidates with the greatest number of approvals (resp. > the candidates at the top of the ranking according to the ranked > pairs method) should be elected. However, this means that a majority > of the voters of a given party can fill all the seats of this party.
Yes, I understand. The goal is to avoid a majority dictatorship that would use 50%+1 of a party electorate to impose 100% of the top runners. > Therefore, I suggest that the voters should have the possibility > to rank the candidates, but that these votes should be counted by STV. And I agree that the voters should have the possibility to rank the candidates of different parties like Markus says. But I want to emphasize that these votes can be counted by another method than STV. Steph ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
