On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:14 PM, James Gilmour <[email protected]> wrote: > No, it is not at all like MMP in that. ALL the votes are party votes. All > the votes are used to allocate seats to parties and then > the votes within parties are used to decide which candidates should fill the > allocated seats. Importantly, all the members are > elected on an equal basis - quite unlike MMP.
However, you are allowed to cross out a party member and replace him with a non-member. > No, because for every "cumulated vote" you must "strike out" a corresponding > vote. Of course, when it comes to the allocation of > candidates to seats, the cumulated votes do have a separate effect. Yeah, but it only has an effect after the number of seats per party is decided, based on the party votes. With MMP, if you win a local seat, you are guaranteed to be elected. This is ultimately what allows the decoy list mechanism to work. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
