Yikes Raph. I didn't know that the method was potentially nonmonotonic. I oppose all nonmonotonic methods.
I would think that you could simple set a threshold number of votes to win a seat and then redistribute all excess votes for candidates to the 1st candidates on their own lists, then redistribute all the excess votes that resulted from that redistribution, etc. until there are no excess votes and all positions are filled. It does sound a little complicated though, sortof like IRV for candidates rather than for voters. Is it fair and equal for all candidates? I don't have time to sit and think about it right now. Thanks for mentioning its possible nonmonotonicity. Yes, it would be much more complex than party list systems where none of the candidates were on more than one party list, but what about party list systems with shared candidates? That might have the same sort of complexity problems. Sigh. too busy and tired to think about it now. Cheers, Kathy On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Raph Frank <raph...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Terry Bouricius > <ter...@burlingtontelecom.net> wrote: >> Ralph is describing the open list system used in such places as the >> Netherlands (nation-wide) and Finland (regionally). > > I was thinking of a system with 1 list per candidate, rather than 1 > list per party. This gives the voters more choice. > > Open list works the same, except that there is only 1 list per party. > > However, combining candidate lists in a monotonic way would be difficult. > > The tree method would have seats distributed between the parties and > then within the various "wings" of the parties based on how many votes > each party/wing/candidate obtained. > -- Kathy Dopp http://electionmathematics.org Town of Colonie, NY 12304 "One of the best ways to keep any conversation civil is to support the discussion with true facts." Realities Mar Instant Runoff Voting http://electionmathematics.org/ucvAnalysis/US/RCV-IRV/InstantRunoffVotingFlaws.pdf Voters Have Reason to Worry http://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf Checking election outcome accuracy http://electionmathematics.org/em-audits/US/PEAuditSamplingMethods.pdf ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info