On Aug 17, 2008, at 21:54 , Raph Frank wrote:
OTOH, the Australian system wouldn't be quite so bad if they
didn't require that each voter rank every candidate. That would
mean that each voter's vote would be slightly weaker if they
decided not to use the party list (but probably still 95%+
strength)
One could also complete short votes (at least by default) to
something longer (e.g. party preferences or just party as a whole) to
get rid of this problem.
Juho
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