[EM] [Election-Methods] [english 94%] PR favoring racialminorities

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

>> Also, such a scheme would be, I think, highly susceptible to agenda 
>> manipulation: who decides which issue is to be effectively on the 
>> ballot, and who decides that the candidates associated with X and 
>> not-X are sincere?
> 
> Citizens are free to form such lists. Each list may support and oppose 
> any topics, and the lists are supposed to collect similar minded 
> candidates together. Ballots may be just votes for individual candidates 
> (not for issues). I don't see any specific problems in this case.

Does that mean that a single candidate can be a member of more than one 
list? If so, how are ties handled? Depending on how that's done, it 
could cause complex interactions depending on which party a voter 
decides to support.

If a single candidate can't be on more than one list, then agenda 
manipulation still has some power. If a candidate has to commit to a 
list that is based primarily on issue X, but where he also supports Y, 
he has to make a choice (distinct from the choices voters make) of X 
over Y. That could be technically solved by making 2^n "lists" for n 
issues, but then you'd have to let candidates be on multiple lists, and 
pure "party-neutral" PR becomes much simpler.

Tree lists would help, but say that a voter likes Y, but not X any more 
than the candidate in question does. Then he wouldn't want to have his 
vote contribute to any of the other X-favoring candidates.