[EM] Proportional, Accountable, Local (PAL) representation: isn't this a big deal?

[Jameson Quinn]

2011/10/25 Kristofer Munsterhjelm <km_elmet at lavabit.com>

> Jameson Quinn wrote:
>
>     * A multimember-district system helps with the above problems, but
>>
>>      doesn't actually solve them. Who wants a system where ballots are
>>      only a little bit too complex, where you only sort of know who
>>      your representative is, and which is only mostly proportional?
>>
>
> Multimember systems have been used in the US, on a local scale. The lack of
> such systems in the current day might just as well be due to that there is
> no modern day "League of Proportional Representation" such as the one whose
> efforts helped get STV into New York, than that multimember systems
> themselves are too complex.
>
>
Fair enough. But note also that this was just the lesser of my two stated
hurdles to MMP.

Jameson
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