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<div>Electing a '<span class="correction" id="">centerist</span>' House normally requires districts. For example, a House that was<br>
elected with <span class="correction" id="">condorcet</span> from single seat districts would be mainly <span class="correction" id="">centerists</span>.<br>
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Anyway, here is the proposed method:<br>
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The districts are numbered 1 to N<br>
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A candidate stands 1 district.<br>
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The voter ranks all (or some) of the districts and <br>
indicates his vote for the ones he ranks.<br>
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The quota is set at the the Hare quota.<br>
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Votes are then fractionally transferred between districts like <span class="correction" id="">IRV</span>. At the<br>
end each district will have total votes <span class="correction" id="">equaling</span> 1/N of the votes cast.<br>
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The winner in each district wins a seat.<br>
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I can see the ballot getting pretty complex. It might require some kind<br>
of write in system and maybe a max number of districts you can <span class="correction" id="">indicate</span><br>
a vote for.<br>
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For example, a voter could vote (assume Approval used)<br>
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1) District 7, Approve A,B<br>
2) District 3, Approve F<br>
3) District 1, Approve H,I,K<br>
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200% of a quota's worth of voters vote district 7 as first choice.<br>
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This means that only 50% of the <span class="correction" id="">voter's</span> vote is consumed for voting in<br>
district 7.<br>
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The vote might end up being<br>
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50%: Approve A,B<br>
45%: Approve F<br>
5%: Approve H, I, K<br>
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The system at least assures that each district has the same number of voters.<br>
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A majority would have to try to split its votes evenly throughout the <br>
districts. There is no point in winning a district 99% to 1% by having all of their<br>
voters vote in that district.<br>
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The system effectively allows people to change district at will. I wonder if<br>
the result would be stable or unstable (I am leaning towards unstable). There <br>
would be an incentive for minorities to converge on districts that they lost 55<br>
to 45, causing instability. This effect would be reduced if representatives <br>
actually represented their district in its <span class="correction" id="">entirety</span>. Also, if representatives said <br>
that they will be concentrating on a certain geographical area, this would help fix <br>
districts to certain areas providing more stability.<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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