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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://www.irpp.org/po/index.htm > > back issues [link] > > Policy Options, Jul-Aug 2001 (Canada politics magazine) [...] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Alternative voting or mixed member/proportional: What can we expect?" > by Louis Massicotte > In a number of recent elections the first-past-the-post system has > produced anomalous results. Experience in both Australia and Canada > shows that the alternative vote usually does not make much of a > difference in electoral outcomes. The mixed member/proportional system > used in Germany and New Zealand is sometimes oversold, but a careful > assessment of its advantages and disadvantages suggests it might well > help lessen some of the imbalances currently observed in Canada. > download article (PDF) | return to index > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
