On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe one could force the voting > power of different candidates within some agreed range. That could be done > by cutting only the power of the strongest representatives and forwarding > their excess votes to the nearest group (or as indicated by the STV > ballots)
Right. However, there is an argument that having an assembly with variable vote size actually increases diversity. There is little extra diversity in having 10 candidates with roughly the same viewpoint. I think the added complexity of variable voting strength is probably not worth the effort. Ofc, with public voting it isn't as large a problem and also, as I said in my last post, if the weights are reasonably close together, then it only matters if the votes are nearly balanced. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info