Dear James Gilmour, you wrote (10 July 2008):
> If you are going to mess about with MMP to the > extent that you suggest in the hope of making > some significant improvements to what is > basically a very poor voting system, why not > just adopt STV-PR and do the job properly? When you promote pure STV in a country that already uses proportional representation by party lists, then you will be accused immediately that you were dishonest and that your real aim was to increase the effective threshold to gain representation. My own experience says that, when you want to promote STV in a country that already uses proportional representation by party lists, then your proposal must contain provisions to compensate party proportionality on the national level. Otherwise, your proposal is a non-starter. Markus Schulze ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info