I concur that this method does quite well on my stated criteria. Therefore,
I heartily support it.
I especially like how, without any compromise in the secret ballot, it
allows each* voter to know who "their" representative is; a representative
who they certainly supported by party, and probably s
To make the proposals in my earlier mail more concrete, here's one simple (as
much as possible) example of a politically proportional, geographically
proportional and local representative oriented method. I'll also estimate how
well this method meets Jameson Quinn's criteria.
- voters write the
One feature of single-winner district based political systems is that voters
will have a clearly named "own" representative that is as local as possible. In
a PR context with multiple parties one could redefine this idea so that people
should have a known representative that represents them in t
