On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:18 AM, James Gilmour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raph Frank > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 11:33 PM >> That is another option, the Australians seem to be against >> the concept of exhausted ballots. The vote could be extended >> by the party list of the voter's first choice. > > But none of these would be STV-PR. They would be yet more variants of > party-list PR. >
Well, if each voter voted for 2-3 local candidates and then extended it via a party list, then it is PR-STV, just with a requirement that they rank all the candidates.. This is especially true if the voter has the option of ranking all the candidates manually instead. > Australia introduced compulsory voting in 1924 and compulsory marking of > preferences against all candidates in Federal Senate STV > elections in 1934. I cannot find the reference for it, but I recall the 1934 > change was prompted by the large amount of "bullet > voting" at the previous election. Wonder why there was so much bullet voting. Maybe it wasn't really a problem and they just wanted to bring in compulsory marking of all the candidates, so they would get, in effect, closed party lists. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
