Does MMP need a rethink?

[ManDownUnder]

Take a bow Mr Peters!

I'll take the bow thanks... I'll use it to send some arrows his way.

MMP be gone. STV all the way. Add some automation into the system and the calcs are done in a heartbeat. We need a set number of MPs divided into a ratio approximating the final result of the calcs.

Iterative process that takes a summary count of the votes then rolls them up starting with the least supported party.

Sub STVElectionResultMaker
While WeHaveASimpleMajority = FALSE
RedistributeVotesFromLowestPollingParty
Wend

EmailWinningParty("Congrats dude - you're the man")
EmailLosingParties("You're not going to like this...")
End Sub

Course if it's Labour getting in it's more like an STD than STV but that's just me being picky

[idb]

Or Joe, even...
You're not still irritated by Kate Sheppard?

Hehe!
For an excellent perspective on all these silly ladies and their demands for equality, Google 'Stuart Rose, Marks and Spencers, glass ceiling'.

A very wise and considered man.

I'm sorry I can't copy a link from an iPod.

[Skyryder]

MMP would be more effective if your average voting Jo understood how it worked.

My thoughts too.

God knows how they would get on with STV where logarithms are used to calculate the result.


Skyryder

[Skyryder]

Hmmm...I wonder how that could possibly be achieved?

I assume that all parties in the government would be similarly constrained, so we would be back to the original problem?

No we would not. You would still have a proportianal parliment represented by the total votes that each party got. This in essance is the purpose of MMP.

However the Parlimentary vote could be based of a WEIGHTED VOTING SYSTEM.

At present each vote has the same weight or carries the same power etc but in the corperatate world those with the most stock have a greater voting weight. Much the same could be applied to a political party. Those with the most seats where each single vote would count for more than those with lesser seats.

I don't know where this is used in the Parlimentary system if at all but such a system would reduce the 'ransome effect' from minor parties under an MMP system.


Skyryder

[Hitcher]

Here are a couple of quizes that some of our resident "experts" may like to attempt.

Please don't hesitate to post your scores:

http://www.elections.org.nz/app/quiz/

http://www.elections.org.nz/app/quiz/advanced.html