Any ideas, questions..
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While this site is not promoting proportional representation directly, choice voting can work with proportional representation, and there are three variations of it described below. For those who support proportional representation, basic choice voting can work as a transitionary stage until full PR is implemented in one of the following forms:
Condorcet can certainly be counted by hand, and STV can as well (although it's a bit more complicated). No computers are required, although a calculator and/or a computer would certainly be helpful for STV.
What version of choice voting was recently implemented in some US cities? Can you rank as many candidates as you like, or only two?
I’ve decided to put some of my electoral reform efforts into promoting Choice Voting in the current single member districts and set up the following site:
After the recent setback in BC, PEI, and Ontario to full proportional representation, I think its a more viable change that will increase competition and accountability even if it does not deliver the fair results that many of use have fought for over the last few years.
