[EM] Your opinion

[Markus Schulze]

Hallo,

Stephane Rouillon asked me for a comment about this paper:
http://www.citizensassembly.bc.ca/public/get_involved/submission/ROUILLON-65

I replied (21 May 2004):
> Your proposal (SPPA) is a so-called "best winner" method of
> Mixed-Member Proportional Representation. That means: The
> electorate is divided into single-winner districts; the seats
> are distributed to the parties in proportion to their votes;
> if a party gets M seats then those M candidates of this party
> win who got most votes. Such a method was proposed by the
> Hansard Commission and is used in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
>
> However, I don't believe that the proposed combination of the
> "best winner" method of Mixed-Member Proportional Representation
> on the one side and preferential voting on the other side (pages
> 3-6) will work. I guess that when SPPA is being used then most
> voters will bullet vote for the candidate of their favorite
> party to guarantee that his vote will not go to a different
> party.
>
> I consider the "crutch" option (page 6) to be unrealistic.
> In any case, there is no connection between the "crutch"
> option and SPPA. Therefore, I suggest that you should propose
> the "crutch" option in a separate submission.
>
> I consider the random assignment of the voters and the
> candidates (pages 7-8) to be unrealistic. I don't believe
> that the parties will run their specialists against each
> other; I rather believe that the opposition will run their
> most important candidates against weaker candidates of the
> party in power to make sure that their most important
> candidates are elected.

Markus Schulze