[EM] The Global Fight For Electoral Justice: A Primer

[Toby Pereira]

The main problem with STV is that it limits the region size and therefore the level of proportionality you can achieve because ballot papers can get very large and unwieldy very quickly.

Another alternative is mixed member (MMP) but without lists. You would have individual constituencies as well as wider regions.
Something like what I described here - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/electionscience/aP7ybKMb1zs/giaYAh6wAwAJ - which would work with score or approval voting. I also did a video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjeBEBZjm9Y - but that's a bit long. I should probably do a short one.
Toby




 
      From: James Gilmour <jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk>
 To: 'Erik Moeller' <eloquence at gmail.com> 
Cc: election-methods at lists.electorama.com
 Sent: Tuesday, 3 January 2017, 12:48
 Subject: Re: [EM] The Global Fight For Electoral Justice: A Primer
   

And if you are going to have effective ranking WITHIN each party list, why not just use STV-PR?

Regards
James


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Moeller [mailto:eloquence at gmail.com]
> Sent: 03 January 2017 04:59
> To: jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk
> Cc: ElectionMethods <electionmethods at votefair.org>; election-methods at lists.electorama.com
> Subject: Re: [EM] The Global Fight For Electoral Justice: A Primer
> 
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 7:52 AM, James Gilmour <jgilmour at globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I have always understood that the British civil servants who
> > administered the British Occupied Zone after WWII had a large hand in
> > devising AMS, by combining the British FPTP system (with single-member
> > electoral districts) with the old Weimar system, in the
> > (mistaken) belief that this would introduce a significant element of
> > personal choice to what had been an impersonal closed-list party-list voting system.
> 
> It's not completely mistaken as the directly elected candidates sometimes do enjoy high local popularity that propels them to unusual
> levels of success beyond the support for their party. But I think the single-vote variant is interesting in this regard, because the
> combination of party/person and the use of popular support to derive party lists means that individuals benefit from campaigning
> locally (they're more likely to get a list seat if they score well).
> 
> Variants of this system that don't require full ranking but still increase intra-party competition are likely possible. For example, if voters
> could strike through the name of a person they absolutely don't want while still voting for the party, this would be a simple tool to
> further influence the list ranking.
> 
> > Originally electors had only one vote; the two-vote ballot paper was
> > introduced for the Federal Bundestag elections in 1953.
> >
> > The predominance of closed-list party-list voting systems in
> > continental Europe
> 
> Open lists are also widespread in continental Europe, as this map from Fairvote shows:
> http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/fairvote.geography-class/page.html#3/46.80/751.64
> 
> Cheers,
> Erik


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