Saturday 24 April 2010

Party List would make sure votes count and we know who we voted for

Party List (either closed or open) is better than Single Transferable Vote (STV) selection because each person will know who they voted for. With STV we don't know who we voted for, it might be that none of our preferences are chosen, or more than one. With Party List we know that our vote has counted. With STV our vote might count, or it might not.
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  1. Bob Richard24 April 2010 at 19:30

    I disagree. When STV is counted by computer, it's perfectly feasible to report how any given sequence of rankings got counted. It's also worth emphasizing that when more than one of your preferences gets elected, your ballot contributed a fraction of its total strength to each. The fractions always add up to 1.0. Finally, except in extremely unusual cases, a very large fraction of almost all ballots end up getting counted for one or more of the winners.

    I'm not saying STV is superior to party list. I'm just saying they're both good.

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