At 19:42 +0200 25.1.2002, Adam Tarr wrote: >So my idea is this: Implement STV, but allow a _party_ to be entered as a >line >in the ballot.
This, if I understand you right, is the system in use in senate elections in Australia. 95% of the voters follow party recommendations (http://www.aec.gov.au/pubs/factfiles/factsheet7.htm). It's much the same in Malta (http://www.maltadata.com) even though you have no possibility to vote "above the line" there. You might as well have open list PR, which is much easier to implement. Good sites on PR: Douglas Amy http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/polit/damy/BeginningReading/howprwor.htm Mike Ossipoff http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/vote/listCan.html If you can read German there are more. Olli Salmi
