[EM] Preferential Party List Method Proposal

[James Gilmour]

Greg Nisbet   Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 4:31 AM
My system does not have voters voting for candidates at all. In fact, candidates needn't even exist (theoretically of course) for my
method to be well-defined. Instead people simply vote for parties, with parties that can't get any seats dropped from the lowest
weight first. Making the system more candidate-centric could be done, but my algorithm (or class of algorithms) is supposed to be a
minimal, easily analyzable change from non-preferential party list methods.  
 
But this is not what the majority of electors want, at least not in polities like USA, Canada and UK.  Electors in some continental
European countries do seem to be happy with party list PR without any voter choice of candidates, but I would suggest, that would
not be acceptable in our political culture.   For the UK, that opinion is based on various public opinion polls; for the USA and
Canada it is based on my reading of local media and blogs.
 
James Gilmour
 
 
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