[EM] Asset-MMP

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 04.07.2022 21:12, Richard Lung wrote:
> 
> To all,

> MMP gets my vote as perhaps the worlds most dysfunctional voting
> method, in respectable use. The best that can be said, for its
> genesis, is that it came about largely by accident, thru a post war
> collision of the Weimar closed party list and the British occupation
> zone simple plurality count.
The idea of my method was to find something that has the same benefits
of MMP (representation of party groups with a low consistent support
throughout the country) without the requirement of formal party
organization, and thus without the need of a party list component.

The method would work by electing constituency candidates either in
single-winner or multi-winner districts; then the voters who are not
represented by the winners would get some additional candidates elected
to a one-time assembly, where these additional candidates negotiate
(with their voting power given by their support) to elect a number of
top-up  candidates.

Would you consider such an approach to solve the problems of MMP?

(Note that as a single-ballot method, this variant is not susceptible to
decoy lists: each voter ranks the candidates as in Condorcet or STV.)

-km