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

[Raph Frank]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Also an STV election that has tens of candidates but allows also shorter
> votes may have problems.
>
> The favourite party of the voter could have 20 candidates. Let's say that
> they are all about equally strong. Based on the size of the party we expect
> two of the candidates to be elected. In order to guarantee that one's vote
> will benefit the party and will not run out of candidates during the
> counting process one would have to rank all those 20 candidates.

I think that in such a situation, voters would vote for the 2-3 candidates
who live near them, so they should be reasonably safe.

However, a district with 20 party members would mean that it had
probably around 50 seats and that is way to large.

> Voters might be too lazy to do that. Some default (or explicit) inheritance
> to the party could help.

That is where I would use candidate lists.  However, trees work fine too.

The key point is to allow the voter directly vote their first few votes as
that is where 80-90% of their voting power is.