2011/10/25 Kristofer Munsterhjelm <[email protected]> > Jameson Quinn wrote: > > * A multimember-district system helps with the above problems, but >> >> doesn't actually solve them. Who wants a system where ballots are >> only a little bit too complex, where you only sort of know who >> your representative is, and which is only mostly proportional? >> > > Multimember systems have been used in the US, on a local scale. The lack of > such systems in the current day might just as well be due to that there is > no modern day "League of Proportional Representation" such as the one whose > efforts helped get STV into New York, than that multimember systems > themselves are too complex. > > Fair enough. But note also that this was just the lesser of my two stated hurdles to MMP.
Jameson
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