D. N. Vercáriâ
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(last post: March 15, 2008 - 16:51)
Citizen #26:
Dieter N Vercáriâ |
> I'm interested in panachage, where voters can effectively construct their "ideal" list from non-ordinal lists of candidates offered by the parties, or from independents. Each voter would get as many votes as there are seats to be filled, and can allocate each vote to one candidate from any of the lists. A quota is calculated (no. of votes/seats), and the candidates who get more votes than the quota are elected. Its a kind of cumulative voting, its used in Luxembourg and Switzerland as part of their (admittedly unusual) list PR systems.
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It is used in communal elections in a variety of German federation states, too, amongst them Hesse. One disadvantage of panachage might be that even more than in our current system people who actually don't want to play a (leading) role in politics might get prominently elected, quasi "against their will". Same goes for write-in votes.
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- Dieter
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