On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Juho <[email protected]> wrote: > If one really wants a two-party system and doesn't want voters to change > that fact then one could ban third parties and accept only two. That would > solve the spoiler problem :-).
What about a 2 stage process. Ask voters to vote "What party is your favourite party?". Only the top-2 parties are then allowed to run candidates for the main election. You could use Asset voting to decide on the 2 parties if they don't manage to more than 1/3 of the vote each. Each "party" might end up being a coalition of parties. > In principle each district could have its own two > parties that are independent of what the two parties are in other districts. > There is however some tendency to end up with two or small number of parties > nation wide. This is seen in Canada with the Quebec party. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
