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To: jttmab who wrote (17184)5/24/2005 11:33:55 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander  Read Replies (1) of 20773
 
"German-like system easily transfers to the US"

There are basically two different possibilities:

- add N seats to the house, these will be those
which are elected through larger districts, large enough
to elect maybe 6-10 seats (candidates).

- combine some single-seat-districts to "free up"
the same N.

Both solutions are clearly difficult to implement:

- 300 seats in parliament is clearly close to the maximum
size of a "functional" system (compare parliements with
something like 1-2,000 "locally elected"

- combining existing districts would demand a total
"re-drawing" of all districts.

PS one solution "suggested" for USA has been to just
improve the present single-seat-districts by

- combining, for example, three districts into one, and
electing three candidates from this muli-member-district.

This would result in a proportionality-threshold of 30%
compared to the present one of 50%.

Or by defining the dis-proportionality differently:

- Assuming 3 parties and single-seat-districts:

worst case voting 33-33-34% and the 34% candidate "takes all", 66% disproportionality

- 4 parties and 3-member-districts.

26-25-25-24%

the 24% candidate is not elected, 24% dis-proportionality..

funny stuff, when other systems are specifically designed
to achive a higher than 99.9% proportionality.. (among
those getting more than the 1-4-whatever threshold)
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