I've read in this list that possibly the worst electoral system used is
Brazilian open list PR. In this year, Brazilian Congress discuted the change
of electoral law to closed lists, single member plurality or MMP.
Presidents, Governors and Mayors are elected by top-two runoff. I think this
method
I'll compare the Brazilian open list method to a somewhat
corresponding case, open list based parliamentary election in Finland
and the plans to improve it.
In Finland the smallest districts have now 6 seats. That is
considered a problem since having both districts with lots of seats
(max
I restrict my commenting to Condorcet.
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:56:32 +0200 Juho wrote:
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> Single member: Does this mean a dual party system based on single
> seat districts? Is that what Brazil wants? (I don't yet.)
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> MMP: More complex than open list. What is the rationale? Maybe
> i