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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2021-03-27 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] calimac 2021-03-27 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
That's interesting. This is a scenario that I'd not come across in any reading I'd done on voting systems, or in accounts of other AMS polities.
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2021-03-27 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
And I see you have the delights of Gorgeous George putting up as well.

Oh, joy! :o/
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[personal profile] calimac 2021-03-27 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Gorgeous George" = Galloway?
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2021-03-27 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
The very man! :o)
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-03-28 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
It's a bit of an edge case with AMS which only happens in a 5+ party set up if one of the parties is polling 45%+ of the constituency vote and everyone else is sharing the other half of vote evenly-ish.

Which is accidentally the situation we find ourselves in Scotland.

I'm not sure it's soluble by adjusting the allocation of seats between constituency and regional list. Shifting from d'Hondt to the Sainte-Langue method might reduce the gamability. Not sure.

AV+ probably does fix the problem in practice. Difficult to implement that under the circumstances.

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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-03-28 11:31 am (UTC)(link)

So you would have 1 ballot, electing a constituency member using AV and all the 1st preferences become regional list votes?

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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2021-03-28 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It would limit List vote gaming but prevent me deliberately splitting my vote if I liked the top regional candidate on a different party's list more than their local constituency candidate.