[EM] PR in student government

[Gervase Lam]

> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:28:56 -0400
> From: Howard Swerdfeger
> Subject: Re: [EM] PR in student government

> Voting Instructions:
> 1. You only have ONE vote.
> 2. Place an X in the box NEXT to your candidate of choice.
> 3. Your vote counts both for your candidate and your party.
> 
> Party A	          Party B       Party C      Independent
> ________________________________________________________
> [ ]Candidate1  [ ]Candidate1 [ ]Candidate1 [ ]Candidate1
> [ ]Candidate2  [ ]Candidate2 [X]Candidate2
> [ ]Candidate3  [ ]Candidate3 [ ]Candidate3
> ---
> 
> 
> Seats would be allocated proportionally by party.
> But the member of the party that gets each seat would be determined by 
> the number of votes the received.

One slight variation to this is to use Approval voting for both the
voting of the party and candidate.  That is, a voter can approve as many
parties as the voter wishes and as many candidates as wished.

Alternatively, the Approval and Plurality voting could be mixed (i.e.
Plurality voting for parties and Approval voting for the candidates or
vice versa).

Also (for either Plurality or Approval) one could allow voting of
candidates on lists that a voter did not vote for.  But may be
disallowing this would be better.

This type of thing was discussed on this list before:

<http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-
electorama.com/2004-March/012455.html>
<http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-
electorama.com/2004-March/012503.html>

Thanks,
Gervase.