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* Unlike most MMP methods, voters need vote for only one candidate, who may be local or from another district.
* This method uses delegated transfers (see steps 3, 6, and
* There is no party threshold for winning seats; a party can win with just one quota of votes. However, because of the open primary step, parties which don't have at least 20% popularity in at least one district would not have any candidates survive to the general election. In practice, this would probably tend to mean that most (but not quite all) seats would go to the two or three largest parties, but that independent and/or minor-party candidates would still have a fair chance to win seats occasionally. Smaller minority groups (ethnic, ideological, or other) would still be represented insofar as they voted together, but they'd be more likely to be factions within a party than separate parties.
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