Great article but with 10% of the vote spread evenly throughout the city and no cross party transfers how would any Douglass candidate ever win a quota (17%) in a 5 seat district? Open list with a single 10 seat district would seem a better fit for this scenario. Maybe the percentages should be tweaked a bit? Maybe 55/25/20?
Hmmm, not sure I understand your question. The article uses as its example an elected body with 10 seats, all elected at the same time, so the "victory threshold" would be 10% of the vote. Hence, the Douglasses 10% of the population could win one out of the 10 seats. Perhaps I could have been clearer on that point, so I just tweaked it to hopefully make that clearer. Thanks
Hi Walter, in the article I am writing about multi-seat districts, not single-winner reforms like approval voting. Or, another way to look at it is, I wrote about "approval voting in multi-seat districts," which is the same as plurality at-large. Previously I had included Limited Voting, which is the same as SNTV, but in this version I removed that (as well as cumulative voting) to keep the article shorter.
You can have multiple representatives by electing one one way and another one a different way, as in MMP. In my book, I suggest one ia Approval and several more via SNTV. But I propose doing the latter in a novel way, which I won't get into here. What I like about both of those procedures is that they are really simple and neither relies on ordinal rankings.
There are, of course, other possible choices.
Certainly. Which other choices are you thinking of Walter?
Great article but with 10% of the vote spread evenly throughout the city and no cross party transfers how would any Douglass candidate ever win a quota (17%) in a 5 seat district? Open list with a single 10 seat district would seem a better fit for this scenario. Maybe the percentages should be tweaked a bit? Maybe 55/25/20?
Hmmm, not sure I understand your question. The article uses as its example an elected body with 10 seats, all elected at the same time, so the "victory threshold" would be 10% of the vote. Hence, the Douglasses 10% of the population could win one out of the 10 seats. Perhaps I could have been clearer on that point, so I just tweaked it to hopefully make that clearer. Thanks
Oh, you know, Approval, SNTV, etc.
Hi Walter, in the article I am writing about multi-seat districts, not single-winner reforms like approval voting. Or, another way to look at it is, I wrote about "approval voting in multi-seat districts," which is the same as plurality at-large. Previously I had included Limited Voting, which is the same as SNTV, but in this version I removed that (as well as cumulative voting) to keep the article shorter.
You can have multiple representatives by electing one one way and another one a different way, as in MMP. In my book, I suggest one ia Approval and several more via SNTV. But I propose doing the latter in a novel way, which I won't get into here. What I like about both of those procedures is that they are really simple and neither relies on ordinal rankings.