[EM] An unusual "absolving" PR method

[Etjon Basha]

Hi Kristofer,

For me, the sole allure of the very similar method I've been playing with
is to allow a permanent minority to influence the outcome of the permanent
majority, for which purpose you'd apply no de-weighting at all. Indeed,
you'd have the party and individual votes entirely independent of one
another, and no way to linkone to the other. The uber-open list, so to
speak.


Regards,

Etjon



On Sat, 13 Dec 2025, 10:51 pm Kristofer Munsterhjelm, <
km-elmet at munsterhjelm.no> wrote:

> On 2025-12-13 09:11, Etjon Basha wrote:
> > Good evening Kristofer,
> >
> > I've played with basically the same system myself, though I go with
> > quadratic voting at the individual level in the name of countability.
> >
> > Anyway, i don't think there'd be anything stopping the rush to the
> > centre here: parties would just have their national profile set at
> > whichever ideological equilibrium they need to tend to by nation-wide
> > spots or polemic, and have the local candidates rush one over the other
> > to say "well, the boys at central are a bit rough, but their heart is in
> > the right place. We'll find reasonable solutions here".
>
> Right, that's a good point. It's very dependent on strong central party
> discipline.
>
> In the lack of such, maybe the following sketch is better: For each
> district, for each party, deweight voters who didn't count as voting for
> that party in the list election, and usse Condorcet on post-deweighted
> ballots to create an order of finish for the candidates of that party.
> Pick winners from that "generated list".
>
> But then the question becomes: how strongly do you deweight? You'd end
> up with something that probably still fails the DPC - that's the cost of
> the simplicity - but a choice of weight factor makes it more complex.
>
> -km
>
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