I am very concerned at proposal B - that candidates should decide where votes should be transferred. Surely this should be the right of the voters ONLY. This can be achieved by using preferential voting rather than X voting. The quota-preferential method of PR achieves this, and is not over complicated to understand and use. And in any case with computers, can now be straight forward - particularly in counting the votes and calculating the results. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 8 October 1999 9:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EM] Simple P.R. method A simple p.r method for low tech/ no tech areas (and possibly for so-called high tech areas) ---- A. Each voter may vote [X vote] for any legislative body candidate. B. Each candidate may transfer all or part of the votes that he/she receives to any other candidate in any district or at large. [Any party getting Z Droop Quotas would likely get Z seats. There might be a requirement that each candidate specify before the election who would get all or part of the votes cast for him/her.] C. The N candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected. [Option- the candidate with the lowest number of votes shall repeatedly lose until there are only N candidates remaining who shall be elected.] D. Each elected candidate shall have a voting power in the legislative body and its committees, in person or by written proxy, equal to the final number of votes that he/she receives. [The final losing sub- Droop Quota of votes would likely get transferred.] Low tech option for Banzhaf Paradox fans - Each elected candidate shall have one vote in the legislative body and its committees, in person or by written proxy. [This would force above Droop Quota votes for any candidate to be transferred or to be lost.] Almost anything must be done to get indirect Democracy into the U.S.A, Canada, the U.K. House of Commons, India, etc. before lunatic/ extremist indirect minority rule gerrymander politician- legislators cause major local, national and/or international problems (even worse than those currently existing).
