Dear Ernie,
you wrote (25 Aug 2004):
> With STV-PR, is there any way to preserve 'weak' locality? That
> is, say I have district magnitude of 20, so I can conceptually identify
> 20 subdistricts which have been combined into a single district for PR
> purposes. Now, for the extreme cases where
For those who didn't read the appendix - here's a brief summary of
Belgium's elections. Party list voting decides the number of seats
per party. Within a given party, you may either vote for the
standard party order, in which case your vote is treated like a STV vote,
or you may vote for multipl
I think there something I didn't realise before writing this...
I'm not in the frame of electing one! person and the point
is that it changes everything... Maybe I shouldn't have made
the analogy with approval system. PR systems are s
different from election for one person which are usualy
disc