Loomio
Tue 9 Jan 2018 11:27AM

Multi-Winner Plurality PR?

SW Sara Wolf Public Seen by 27

WONK TALK: @adamzielinski had an idea the other day in the middle of our meeting. It was a response to a non-PR multi winner approval system. Here it is if I have it right:

What if you did a multi-winner system where everyone voted for one candidate. Plurality style. If there are 5 seats the top five get elected. Isn't this sort of a crude PR?

It's not expressive or really honest, and it maintains the spoiler effect, but it seems pretty damn equal and I wonder how accurate it might be?

CS

Clay Shentrup Wed 14 Mar 2018 6:32AM

This isn't inherently proportional any more than at-Large Plurality.

SW

Sara Wolf Sat 17 Mar 2018 4:07AM

None of us were recommending it, just contrasting with Lake Oswego's even less proportional system.