On Apr 17, 2007, at 21:28 , Howard Swerdfeger wrote:
Again, I recommend a Regional Open List System.
It would be my second choice (behind STV) in therms of results
given the
requirements you mentioned.
But it would be my first choice if one was to give more weight to
simplicity of counting and simplicity for the voter.
I agree. For me the three very basic (vanilla flavour) multi-winner
methods are:
- STV => if one wants to avoid parties; expressive votes; computer
based calculation for fractional votes
- open lists => if parties and/or groups are used; simple manual
calculation
- single member districts => does not provide full PR; clear links
between representatives and citizens of the region
There are many mixes and variants of these but I think these three
basic methods already pretty well stretch the space.
Ballot Would look something like this
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Voting Instructions:
1. You only have ONE vote.
2. Place an X in the box NEXT to your candidate of choice.
3. Your vote counts both for your candidate and your party.
Party A Party B Party C Independent
________________________________________________________
[ ]Candidate1 [ ]Candidate1 [ ]Candidate1 [ ]Candidate1
[ ]Candidate2 [ ]Candidate2 [X]Candidate2
[ ]Candidate3 [ ]Candidate3 [ ]Candidate3
---
One very simple alternative is to just write the number of one's
favourite candidate in a blank ballot paper. The numbers of the
candidates are advertised elsewhere.
Seats would be allocated proportionally by party.
But the member of the party that gets each seat would be determined by
the number of votes the received.
This basic version works reasonably well. The candidate election
process within parties (plurality like) could however be improved (if
wanted) (e.g. by making the group structure more detailed).
Juho
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