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Originally Posted by GGG
I think a better solution to the first past the post system is the Preferential Ballet. A candidate would need 50% plus one of the votes in a riding to win and you would mark you Ballet 1 to 5 and if someone doesn't get a majority the bottom place person is bumped off the ballet and the number 2 choices on those ballets would be counted. It is more work for the counters but this would eliminate the vote splitting that takes place in a Multiparty system and make non-competive ridings less prevalant. It would likely encourage more minority governments but much less so than any kind of PR system.
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Hey!! You stole my idea for a system!!
I think it makes perfect sense. And I don't think it would lead to more minority governments, which is the weakness of proportional representation. If your first ranking doesn't get in, but the guy you can live with does, you feel like you made more of a contribution to democracy than if you voted for the guy that finished 5th and that's it.... Of course, it may piss off those have trouble enough finding *ONE* guy that they can live with voting for.
I think it would have to be computerized because the counters would be there forever.