Some short observations: - It looked to me that the original proposal was planned for single- seat districts. Maybe the party level outcome would be decided fist and only then the individual approval votes within that party. - Small parties could now also win the seat. - There are also multi-winner Approval based methods (e.g. http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_approval_voting).
Juho On Apr 24, 2007, at 1:50 , Gervase Lam wrote: >> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:28:56 -0400 >> From: Howard Swerdfeger >> Subject: Re: [EM] PR in student government > >> 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 >> --- >> >> >> 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. > > One slight variation to this is to use Approval voting for both the > voting of the party and candidate. That is, a voter can approve as > many > parties as the voter wishes and as many candidates as wished. > > Alternatively, the Approval and Plurality voting could be mixed (i.e. > Plurality voting for parties and Approval voting for the candidates or > vice versa). > > Also (for either Plurality or Approval) one could allow voting of > candidates on lists that a voter did not vote for. But may be > disallowing this would be better. > > This type of thing was discussed on this list before: > > <http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods- > electorama.com/2004-March/012455.html> > <http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods- > electorama.com/2004-March/012503.html> > > Thanks, > Gervase. > > > ---- > election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for > list info ___________________________________________________________ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
