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    The best voting system that you never heard of – proportional past the post( PPP)


    This system is intended for legislative elections.

    So divide the country into roughly equal by population one member electoral districts.

    something like this, credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/rid007/oc_the_contiguous_us_divided_into_433_districts/

    Next, parties put forward candidates in those districts, or they run as independents. People vote for those candidates.

    hypothetical ballot under PPP somewhere near Chicago

    After the votes are cast, all candidates across the nation are ranked, based on their individual votes. Parties receive seats based on their vote share.

    top 10 candidates nationwide under PPP, hypothetical example

    hypothetical seat allocation, from left to right: socdems, libdems, businessdems, independents, tradrepub, MAGArepub

    Give a seat to candidates, going from the top of the ranking, unless:

    – their party reached the cap;

    – somebody from their districts already recieved a seat;

    Indepedents count as a party for seat allocation purposes.

    I thought of this system indepedently, but there is another guy with a similar idea, his youtube. The difference between me and him is that he proposes that people vote for parties and candidates separately. Also, in PPP it is possible to use ranked choice.

    Posted by LowCall6566

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    8 Comments

    2. Significant_Arm4246 on

      Why would this be better than just simple levelling seats (i.e., each seat elects a member and then we fill up with extra seats from a party list until it is proportional)? That has the advantage of every community being represented by the candidate that got the most votes there, which PPP doesn’t.

      Also, why is Katie Porter a Business Democrat?

    3. WAGRAMWAGRAM on

      This sounds like the multimember proportional system France had from 1919 to 1926. And it didn’t last long because it was over complicated and only impacted close elections.

    4. Desperate_Wear_1866 on

      I think I’m missing something, in what way is this different to open list party proportional voting?

    5. morotsloda on

      Sounds kinda similar to the Jefferson / D’Hondt method that’s used in quite a few countries. Can vote for whomever, and even if your person doesn’t get through the vote is transferred to someone else from the same party

    7. miss_shivers on

      Districts can’t cut across states.

      The only thing that matters is multimember districts. Anything else is a distraction.

      I am so tired of “My esoteric voting system is the best one!” activists.

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