I suppose it is fair to call FPTP "pick one" in some contexts, with people who aren't familiar with different voting systems, but it is possible for a proportio

I suppose it is fair to call FPTP "pick one" in some contexts, with people who aren't familiar with different voting systems, but it is possible for a proportional voting system to be implemented with "pick one" ballots. A relatively unknown voting system is Direct Party and Representative Voting: http://www.dprvoting.org/ http://www.dprvoting.org/ which basically involves giving voters two ballot papers at each election: one a simple "pick one" for the local candidate (counted like a normal FPTP election), and the other a "pick one" for the party that the voter prefers at the national level (if any). The proportions for these second ballots are used to adjust the "voting power" of the MPs or Representatives that were elected for each constituency / district by the first ballots. For example, each politician from an under-represented party could be given effectively two votes in the parliament / congress. An even simpler approach (which is a variant of Mixed-member Proportional Representation) would be to use the same ballot papers (and constituencies) as now, and produce the same set of winners as a FPTP counting process produces, but add an extra 20% of representatives to parliament / congress to readjust the composition of that house to reflect the national vote totals. In particular, these extra representatives should come not from a party list (since those give parties the ability to give seats to unpopular candidates) but from the "best near-winners", that is, the candidates who did best in their elections without winning the plurality vote. Such a system is already implemented in Baden-Württemberg. Both of these systems have a clear benefit over Ranked, Score, and even Approval voting, which is that the vote counting process involves putting each piece of paper into one of a few piles, once. There are no extra rounds, and the only information that needs to be communicated for collating is the number of votes for each candidate (which correlates well with the size of the respective piles).