Re: [OT] Voting schemes

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From: "Mark A. Siefert" <siefertma@wi.rr.com>

>     I was in no means advocating a return to the pure historical
system.
> Rather, I was using it as an example of an alternative to
district-based,
> winner-take-all democracy.

Just note, that even in the present, there are perfectly good
democracies
that do not use a district-based, winner-take-all scheme to choose their
parliaments.

The most popular alternatives are :
* a district-based scheme where the winner has to get at least half the
votes - if there is no clear decision in the first round of voting,
there is
arun-off a few weeks later between the two frontrunners.
* proportional representation: each party presents a list of candidates,
and
then gets as many seats as corresponds to their percentage of the votes.

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