[EM] PR/STV Hybrid for multi-winner?

[Olli Salmi]

At 19:42 +0200 25.1.2002, Adam Tarr wrote:
>So my idea is this: Implement STV, but allow a _party_ to be entered as a
>line
>in the ballot.

This, if I understand you right, is the system in use in senate elections
in Australia. 95% of the voters follow party recommendations
(http://www.aec.gov.au/pubs/factfiles/factsheet7.htm). It's much the same
in Malta (http://www.maltadata.com) even though you have no possibility to
vote "above the line" there. You might as well have open list PR, which is
much easier to implement.

Good sites on PR:
Douglas Amy
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/polit/damy/BeginningReading/howprwor.htm
Mike Ossipoff
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/vote/listCan.html

If you can read German there are more.

Olli Salmi