[EM] Dumb question - Misunderstanding

[Stephane Rouillon]

You seem to assume that the approval or ranked pair vote
is taken among all candidates of the same party.

Reading back Mr. Hodges mail, you seem to be right!!
So you prefer case #3) and he was referring to case #2.

Understood. All I meant is STV is not the only way of
establishing a ranking across parties using the popular results.
There are other ways, fully proportional.

Steph

Markus Schulze a écrit :

> Dear Stephane,
>
> John proposes that open party lists should be used and that the voters
> should have the possibility to approve (resp. to rank) the candidates
> and that the candidates with the greatest number of approvals (resp.
> the candidates at the top of the ranking according to the ranked
> pairs method) should be elected. However, this means that a majority
> of the voters of a given party can fill all the seats of this party.
> Therefore, I suggest that the voters should have the possibility
> to rank the candidates, but that these votes should be counted by STV.
>
> Markus Schulze