Juho Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 8:46 AM > James Gilmour wrote: > > Of course, you cannot have single-member districts and PR, ... ... > > I think there are methods that allow even this. It is > possible for example to first count nation wide the votes of > each party and decide the number of seats each party will get > based on the number of votes they got.
This approach is fundamentally flawed because the nation-wide totals of party votes are distorted by local tactical voting in the single-member district contests. There are no clever algorithms available that could possibly "correct" for this inherent defect. And of course, the PR you could obtain by such a (flawed) voting system would only be PR of registered political parties, with all that that implies. Some of us want PR of the voters - we do not want to give even more power to the parties. James Gilmour ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
