Re: [EM] Open and Closed Lists (was ...STV for Candidate...)

2002-02-08 Thread Olli Salmi
At 02:56 +0200 7.2.2002, Blake Cretney wrote: Adam Tarr wrote: ... All of these advantages are shared by open list. (Note that in Open list, there's no reason to stop people from just voting for the party, a la closed list, and not voting within the party. I only mention this for the sake

[EM] Open and Closed Lists (was ...STV for Candidate...)

2002-02-06 Thread Blake Cretney
Adam Tarr wrote: While I agree with most of what you said, I think open list is almost unambiguously better than closed list. 1. It allows districts/constituencies to be eliminated. They tend to corrupt the process. 2. It provides a high degree of proportionality. 3. It is simple