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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>Greg Nisbet<SPAN class=484292208-14082011><FONT
color=#0000ff face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August
14, 2011 4:31 AM<BR></FONT>My system does not have voters voting for candidates
at all. In fact, candidates needn't even exist (theoretically of course) for my
method to be well-defined. Instead people simply vote for parties, with parties
that can't get any seats dropped from the lowest weight first. Making the system
more candidate-centric could be done, but my algorithm (or class of algorithms)
is supposed to be a minimal, easily analyzable change from non-preferential
party list methods. <SPAN class=484292208-14082011><FONT color=#0000ff
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<DIV><SPAN class=484292208-14082011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>But
this is not what the majority of electors want, at least not in polities like
USA, Canada and UK. Electors in some continental European countries do
seem to be happy with party list PR without any voter choice of candidates,
but</FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>I would suggest,
that would not be acceptable in our political culture. For the UK,
that opinion is based on various public opinion polls; for the USA and Canada it
is based on my reading of local media and blogs.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=484292208-14082011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>James
Gilmour</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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