[EM] Asset-MMP

[Richard Lung]

Kristofer,

The short answer is:

You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear.

(I have already given you a long answer.)

With regard to single members and multi-members, I've already dealt with 
this relation, in a post called "vote-count consistency" -- which nobody 
has answered.

I regard single members as the least democratic and least stable form, 
much to be avoided, which I wrote about in a post on "the monarchic 
principle: too much power to one man."

I just unearthed a half-century old article review on William Douglass, 
a former supreme court judge, accusing the president of acting like 
George III.

HG Wells (who else) in his essay, The Disease of Parliaments, 1914, in 
which he advocates and explains, at length, the Hare system, single 
transferable vote, speculates America might produce a Caesar.

Regards,

Richard Lung.



On 12/07/2022 20:21, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
> 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