Would it be possible to plant one's own candidates inside the
competing parties and vote for them? Probably not in practice even if
this was possible in theory.
Ability to influence which candidates of the other parties will be
elected changes the nature of the system a bit in any case (=> more
compromise oriented) (although such votes might not be very common??).
Juho
On Mar 24, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Raph Frank wrote:
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.
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