Dear "baby" Jonathan,
STV-PR suffers from three principal problems that are exacerbated when
trying to push the proportionality limit. They are all caused by the large
number of candidates:
1) A pre-selection occurs within each party, in order for the star candidate
of each party to get elected, that star often tries to kill concurrency
having bad collegues running with him or none at all in order to increase
its own election probability;
2) It is hard to make fair debates when the number of candidates is huge and
they are not even the same for several parties: in the end the candidates
having the most means (money and visibility) have the opporunity of getting
heard and the others may simply not;
3) voters complain about the large number of names on the ballot adding
several undesirable behaviours like random completion or following a party
pre-selection.
Equivalent virtual districts have no such problems: they allow comparing all
candidates with every party proposing a unique candidacy per district. The
result is you can obtain PR results like using only one district for STV-PR,
without the previous problems.
From: Jonathan Lundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Allen Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [EM] No geographical districts
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:30:51 -0700
On Sep 3, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Allen Smith wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (on 3 September
2008 22:01:24 +0000), [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(=?iso-8859-1?B?U3TpcGhhbmUgUm91aWxsb24=?=) wrote:
Hello electorama fans,
regarding that last comment, I invite those interested in non-
geographical
district to consider astrological district.
How about self-chosen districts? One element of current geographical
districts is that people at least theoretically (and in some actual cases
-
see Libertarians moving to New Hampshire, Alaska, etc for instance) can
choose to move to be more around people they agree more with; that even
this
(frequently impractical) method would be impossible with such a system
would
be one objection to it.
STV-PR, baby.
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