Juho wrote:
I could accept also methods where the voting power of each representative is different. The good part is that such a parliament would reflect the wishes of the voters more accurately than a parliament where all the representatives have the same voting power. Maybe one could force the voting power of different candidates within some agreed range. That could be done by cutting only the power of the strongest representatives and forwarding their excess votes to the nearest group (or as indicated by the STV ballots).
Having different amounts of voting power would simplify multiwinner election systems considerably. One could, for instance, just do a FPTP count and then elect the n highest scoring, giving them voting power equal to the share of the total vote they got.
Still, that doesn't happen, and no assembly is set up that way. Why? Does it seem too unfair?
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