[EM] 02/03/02 - STV for Candidate Lists:

Donald Davison donald at mich.com
Sun Feb 3 03:17:04 PST 2002


02/03/02 - STV for Candidate Lists:

Dear Adam,
You wrote: " While it [Party List] is not quite as efficient in making
every vote elect a representative as STV is, it is highly proportional,
highly democratic, and extremely simple to implement and understand. "

Donald:  While I agree to the good things you say about Party List, it does
have a number of faults.

One: Its high proportionality is only for party.

Two: The voter is not allowed to cross party lines.

Three: The order of the candidate list of each party is suspect.

The mathematical correct way to determine the order of candidates for a
party would be to use STV, but then why not use STV for the entire election
and drop Party List?
Yes indeed, why not?

Regards, Donald




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