[EM] Re: another idea (proportionality and intra-party competition)

[Toplak Jurij]

 > Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:21:21 +0100 (CET)
 > From: Kevin Venzke
 > Subject: [EM] another idea (proportionality and intra-party competition)
>
 > Open list. Each voter votes for one list, and *any number* of
> candidates within that list. So it's Approval within the party, and the
> party's median voter could theoretically elect all the candidates for
> the party.
>

There was something similar already used in 1990 Slovenia elections. A voter
could vote for one, two, three, four, five or six candidates. If he voted
for 3, each of them got 1/3 of the vote. If he voted for 5, for example,
each candidate got 1/5 of the vote.
There was one small difference between your system and the system used in
1990. In 1990 voter could choolse to vote within a single party or among the
candidates of various parties.

It took 3 weeks to count all the ballots.
This was mostly because
- there were over 20 parties and each of them had about 6 candidates on the
list,
- some people gave 1/3rds of the votes, the others 1/4ths or 1/5ths, etc.
- these were first democratic elections in the country and combined with 4
or 5 other offices elections on the same day