[EM] [Election-Methods] [english 94%] PRfavoringracialminorities

[Raph Frank]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I guess practically all methods with multiple candidates have some of this
> flavour. Maybe the tendency to work together within a party (=smile more
> than the competing candidate) and be more hostile towards the candidates of
> other parties is more common though.

Yeah, the are pretty polite in publilc, but you sometimes hear about
complaints about the nomination system.

> I could accept also methods where the voting power of each representative is
> different. The good part is that such a parliament would reflect the wishes
> of the voters more accurately than a parliament where all the
> representatives have the same voting power.

In most cases it wouldn't matter.  There could be a rule that unless
the vote is within a few percent, then everyone just counts as having
one vote.