On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Bob Richard <lists...@robertjrichard.com> wrote: > Google turned up this description of the Swiss electoral system: > > http://www.democracy-building.info/particularities-switzerlands-proportional-election-system.html
Thanks. So, from my read, it is party list, but with cumulative voting to decide which candidates in each party win. However, you can only give a maximum vote of 2 to any one candidate. Voters can start with a recommended list from a party. They can cancel one or more candidates from the party's list. If they do that, they can give those votes to other candidates (including double for one candidate). Also, there is no requirement that you vote all your cumulative votes for candidates from the same party. It is like a cumulative voting version of MMP, but there is no mechanism for a candidate to win without being a member of a party. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
