James Gilmour wrote: > Juho Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 10:22 PM ... >> Note that subdivision of parties and their alliances and >> whatever other groupings add tools to the voter to express >> what she wants. Also models where STV like ordering is not >> used but the vote to James automatically goes to the smallest >> group that James belongs to, then to the next bigger group >> etc. may work better than current more rough "vote party >> only" or "vote party member only" arrangements. > > This all sounds very like the "above-the-line" voting that is used in the > Australian Federal Senate elections. It has > perverted STV-PR very severely, so that that implementation is really nothing > more than closed list party PR.
The "perversion" is the rule that requires "below-the-line" votes to be fully-ranked, thus discouraging the practice. I would think that if it were easy to vote for individual candidates, more people would do it. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
