[EM] Poll for favorite multi-winner voting system

[Juho Laatu]

I have some problems in putting these methods in the order of preference. In both single-winner and multi-winner methods I tend to think that the answer is often different for different needs and different societies.

I'm used to open lists. I wouldn't recommend changing them to STV because that would take away some of the good features that people are used to in open lists. For similar reasons STV societies might not benefit of changing to open lists. These two approaches are at their best in different environments e.g. with respect to number of candidates, size of districts, and level of proportionality. So it all depends on what we want, what we are used to, and which steps are politically feasible next steps.

One general purpose system that I like, that can be highly proportional, that may work in multiple environments, with different targets, and that may be politically acceptable in many environments, is a mixture of open lists and STV style ranking based proportional methods (where ranking is used to implement proportionality within the parties). One could also support trees to allow small parties / groups to form alliances.

(Actually I'm already almost talking about a generic system that can be parameterized to meet different needs.)

Juho



On 18.11.2011, at 8.20, Jeffrey O'Neill wrote:

> The poll for favorite multi-winner system ends on Sunday.  Please get your votes in soon if you would like to participate.  I will post a summary of results as I did for single-winner systems.
> 
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Jeffrey O'Neill <jeff.oneill at openstv.org> wrote:
> Following up on last-month's poll for favorite single-winner voting system, I am now doing a poll for favorite multi-winner voting system.
> 
> Please go to this page to register and vote:
>     http://www.opavote.org/vote?ekey=agNzdHZyEAsSCEVsZWN0aW9uGJTHHww
> Note that your email will not be shared with anyone and will not be used for any purpose other than this poll.
> 
> The candidates are:
> -- Open list PR
> -- Closed list PR
> -- Mixed member PR
> -- Cumulative voting
> -- Limited voting
> -- Plurality at-large voting
> -- Meek STV
> -- WIGM STV (eg, Scottish STV)
> -- Other STV
> -- Approval voting
> 
> The poll will close on November 20 and I will report results shortly thereafter.
> 
> best,
> Jeff
> 
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