On Aug 14, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Greg Nisbet wrote:
> My method can be modified fairly trivially to allow parties with a maximum
> size, e.g. an independent candidate would be a party with a maximum size of
> one, and simply allow surpluses to be transferred. Even the relatively naive
> Gregory transfer method might work well, I'm not sure how to adapt Meek or a
> more complicated transfer rule to this method or if the benefits are worth
> the cost. Allowing transfers might place some kind of restriction on what
> sorts of classical allocation methods that the Preferential Party List Method
> could use, but I doubt these would be particularly severe.
>
I briefly described a hybrid list-STV mechanism a few months ago:
http://prfound.org/2010/12/list-stv-pr/
A useful feature (it seems to me) is that lists are not exclusive; that is, a
candidate can appear on multiple lists.
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