On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm <[email protected]> wrote: > Third, the primary is not open and so > even if a good ranked method were used, it would elect the candidate closest > to the party's median, not that of the electorate in general.
Not necessarily. The candidates could easily argue (as now), that they have a better change of being elected if they are closer to the national median. Party voters would have to trade off getting a candidate who reasonably represents the party's views with one who has a reasonable change of being elected. Another option would be to give party members 2 votes and everyone else 1 vote. This would give a median that is between the national and party median. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
