[EM] Clarified PAL explanation (including infographic!)

[Jameson Quinn]

I've tried to clarify and improve the explanation of PAL
representation<http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/PAL_representation>(my
delegated, biproportional PR system proposal). Click on that link (or
this
one<http://www.quora.com/Politics/What-is-the-ideal-voting-system-to-use-to-elect-representatives-of-a-populous-country-to-a-legislature/answer/Jameson-Quinn>for
basically the same thing on Quora) and you can see the new version.

I'd really appreciate any comments on any of this, or any help in
sharpening it further.

I've also made a slight change to the PAL rules for delegation order;
candidates can still choose "their faction" within their party to
preferentially get their votes, but their votes will now pass to the rest
of the party candidates after "their faction" is eliminated (and before
passing to other parties in the candidates declared preference order). I
think that a binary choice within their party is an appropriate level of
control; enough to be able to give a general boost to ideological allies,
but not such fine-grained detail as to give cover for too many logrolling
shenanigans. (For instance, full STV within each party would be too
fine-grained by far.)

Jameson
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