> > > It seems to me that most folks think the choice is between ranked choices > or party-list PR. >
I don't. I think that party-list removes voter freedom, and ranked choices is too much of a burden on the voter. While either would be better than what we have, I prefer to use delegation a la SODA. Thus my favored system is PAL representation<http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/PAL_representation>. It's true that PAL still has some (very attenuated) party-list-like aspects, because party affiliation is used to match candidates to districts at the end; but if you were willing to give up this (overlapping) geographical representation aspect of PAL, you could make a similar delegated PR system in which parties played no explicit role. Jameson
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