[EM] Request comments on MMP?

Neal Finne shadowdragon at softhome.net
Mon Aug 4 19:10:02 PDT 2003


I wrote:

> What if all the sub-district ballots are counted together--for 
> example, we take ten 3-seat districts and count them as a 30-seat 
> district with an appropriate quota--and we use the rule, "the 
> candidate to be eliminated shall be the candidate with the lowest 
> votes from the party with the lowest average votes per candidate"? 
> That would ensure party PR, and if I'm not mistaken, geographic PR. I 
> suppose that could be combined with CPO-STV as well. 

*slaps forehead* Slash that. Perhaps there could be a similar system, 
though, with a double ballot as used in Germany.




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