[EM] question about open party list PR

[jure.toplak at uni-mb.si]

Countries use a wide variety of methods. Sometimes a voter has a
possibility to choose one of the lists and then choose one or more
candidates within the list (preferential voting). More rarely, however,
voters can simultaneously vote for candidates on more than one list (so
called panachage). Often countries are divided into smaller districts
and there are separate lists available to voters of each district. 

There's a vast of literature available on this topic. See for instance
David Farrell's "Electoral Systems: A comparative introduction" or one
of the books written by Arend Lijhphart.

J.

>
>hi everyone,
>
>hopefully this isn't OT.
>
>Iraq's election was just conducted using closed list PR.  as I
>understand it, there were over 7000 names across all the party lists.
>
>If they had used open list PR, would voters have to select across all
>7000 names?  or do countries that use open list partition the names by
>geographic region or some other method?
>
>thanks
>
>-- James
>
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