At least traditions, the need to have computers to count the votes,
and maybe also the problem of classifying representatives to more and
less important ones are some reasons why this approach is not widely
used.
Allowing representatives to have different voting power can increase
the accuracy of PR. Mostly we are talking about small differences,
but maybe also this option is worth considering.
Juho
On Aug 22, 2008, at 15:56 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
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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