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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:32:14 +0100<br>
From: "James Gilmour" <<a href="mailto:jgilmour@globalnet.co.uk" target="_blank">jgilmour@globalnet.co.uk</a>><br>
To: <<a href="mailto:election-methods@lists.electorama.com" target="_blank">election-methods@lists.electorama.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [EM] Preferential Party List Method Proposal<br>
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Greg Nisbet > Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 10:25 PM<br>
> All current forms of party list proportional representation<br>
> have each voter cast a vote for a single party. I say this is<br>
> inadequate since a small party can be eliminated and hence<br>
> denied any representation (this is particularly relevant if<br>
> the legislature has a threshold). However, votes for a party<br>
> that doesn't have sufficient support to win any seats in the<br>
> legislature are simply wasted.<br>
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Not necessarily so. See "apparentement". Parties can "chain" their votes so that fewer votes are wasted in the seat allocation<br>
calculations.<br>
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James Gilmour<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Apparentement as it were (or even panachage, as the Swiss allow), still are not the same type of method as the type I propose. Apparentement, as I am now aware exists, is solely at the discretion of the parties, and thus doesn't reflect the wishes of the voters directly, and as such cannot truthfully be called a "preferential allocation method" since it does not allow the expression of arbitrary preferences and panachage is too candidate-centric and not flexible enough to be a method of the same ilk as the one I propose. I thank you for educating me on this matter, but believe I am nevertheless technically correct (at least by a reasonable definition of "preferential method").</div>
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