PAL representation: Difference between revisions

* Candidates pre-announce their rank-orderingpreference of theamong parties (starting withand their own party) and may optionally approve/disapproveapprovals within each party candidates. Their votes will never be transferred to disapproved candidatesparties.

* Voters may vote on the candidates in their or nearby districts, or write in candidates from farther off. VotesSingle-candidate "bullet" votes are delegated byto that defaultcandidate but optionally, voters may refuse to delegate orby votevoting approval-stylefor more than one candidate.

* Candidates pre-announce their rank-ordering of the parties (starting with their own party) and may optionally approve/disapprove ofwithin anyeach other candidatesparty.

*: To simplify the ballots, the population is separated into a "district" for each seat, and "districts" are grouped into sets of 2 or 3 "co-districts". The ballot for each district lists the incumbents and candidates from that district in a larger font, and the candidates from its co-districts below that in a smaller font. Write-ins may be used to vote for candidates from other districts not listed on the ballot, so the districts only matter for ballot simplicity (Voters do not want to have a ballot with many dozens of candidates on it, but write-ins allow full freedom for those voters who want it). Larger parties will usually run one candidate per district; smaller parties may just run just one candidate per co-district set.

* Each vote is transformed into the pre-announced party preference order and individual approvals/disapprovals of the candidate it chooses. Votes will never be transferred to a candidate who was disapproved in the pre-announced list.