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<div>I am reposting this from my post at the rangevoting list (<span class="correction" id="">slightly</span><br>
modified).<br>
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<a href="http://rangevoting.org/PropRep.html">http://rangevoting.org/PropRep.html</a><br>
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"You want to get both best possible quality & accountability and best<br>
possible representation"<br>
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This is an interesting point. What about an assembly elected as follows:<br>
<br>
The country is split into 3*N districts and the districts are grouped<br>
into groups of 15 districts.<br>
<br>
Each district elects 1 representative using approval with a reasonable<br>
one seat system.<br>
<br>
The groups then each elect 5 candidates from 15 first round winners<br>
using <span class="correction" id="">PR-STV</span> or some other PR system where the voters get to <br>
pick who gets elected.<br>
<br>
In theory, both ballots could be cast at the same time. However,<br>
having to rank all candidates for 15 districts might be pushing it<br>
a little. This headache could be lessened by allowing voters to <br>
vote for their favorite candidates and then vote for party. (the<br>
party would only matter if the vote has to transfer past the<br>
candidate listed on the ballot). Another option would be that they<br>
could vote by district for the later options.<br>
<br>
Step 1 results in higher quality candidates and step 2 results in<br>
proportionality in representation.<br>
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In fact, maybe there could be a "Winner's and a <span class="correction" id="">Loser's</span> House" (though<br>
you probably wouldn't want to call them that :) ).<br>
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Alternatively, after the <span class="correction" id="">PR-STV</span> step, the 2 <span class="correction" id="">condorcet</span> winners of the <br>
remaining candidates could be elected to the upper house.<br>
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Obviously, whichever house is more powerful would have to elect <br>
candidates first. This gets you a (<span class="correction" id="">sorta</span>) PR based lower House and <br>
a single seat based lower House.<br>
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One issue is that the resulting house would probably be slightly biased<br>
to the districts that elected its members. <span class="correction" id="">OTOH</span>, this creates an <br>
incentive for districts to pick a "good" candidate ... though that might <br>
take things back to the 2 party system (as the best way to get <br>
your candidate elected is to pick one from a reliable party ... <br>
though with PR that just means pick a party that will likely get 1 <br>
person elected).<br>
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Another way of looking at it is that ballot access is based on the first<br>
stage election.<br>
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This could be taken to extreme and completely decoupling the 2<br>
elections. There could be regular "ballot access" elections and<br>
only people who have won at least one ballot access election <br>
are allowed to stand for office. However, the election for office<br>
itself would be PR based. The ballot access election districts<br>
might cover 10% of the country. In the US, they could even<br>
be the States. <br>
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<div style="clear: both;"><span class="correction" id="">Raphfrk</span><br>
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Interesting site<br>
"what if anyone could modify the laws"<br>
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<span class="correction" id="">www</span>.<span class="correction" id="">wikocracy</span>.<span class="correction" id="">com</span></div>
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