[EM] simple MMP-ish idea - works with plurality voting in single-winner districts

[Adam Tarr]

On 8/30/05, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <abd at lomaxdesign.com> wrote:

At 03:54 PM 8/30/2005, Adam Tarr wrote:
> >Just a random thought I had the other day for a PR system that would
> >work using only single-winner districts.
> 
> The scheme, as described, achieves proportionality by awarding
> victory to some candidates who had only weak support in the districts
> from which they were supposedly elected. This cannot reasonably be
> called "single-winner."


I didn't describe it as "single winner" I described it as working in single 
winner districts. The point was, no change to the voting method would have 
to be made for this to work.

It was more of an intellectual exercise in squeezing PR out of the current 
system, rather than a serious proposal that I think is wonderful.

Rather, it is multiple-winner over the
> collection of districts, and the assignment of winners to districts
> is not a significant detail (except that I suppose that district
> constituents might have someone to petition if they want governmental
> action on something).


Exactly; every voter gets a local representative. Also, "the assignment of 
winners to districts" does require that the candidate ran in that district 
and that district alone, so it's not a complete abstraction. While the 
winner may not have had a plurality of votes, he or she is as much the 
representative of a voter in that district as any current representative is. 
After all, there are plenty of people who don't vote for the winner in 
regular single-winner districts.
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