[EM] PR in student government

[Juho]

Some short observations:
- It looked to me that the original proposal was planned for single- 
seat districts. Maybe the party level outcome would be decided fist  
and only then the individual approval votes within that party.
- Small parties could now also win the seat.
- There are also multi-winner Approval based methods (e.g. http:// 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_approval_voting).

Juho


On Apr 24, 2007, at 1:50 , Gervase Lam wrote:

>> 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.
>
>
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