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The NZ voting system looks very much like the German system to me. And while that system certainly has its flaws (e.g. when a party has more directly voted memb
by gmueckl 5y ago
The NZ voting system looks very much like the German system to me. And while that system certainly has its flaws (e.g. when a party has more directly voted members than seats from the overall proportion of votes), it does respect a higher number of cast votes than FPTP. Any vote in FPTP that wasn't cast for the winning local candidate is lost. In MMP, every vote for a party influences the result in every case.
- stormking 5y agoAs a german I can tell you that not being able to get rid of certain people because they will always re-enter parliament via party list is annoying as hell.
- gmueckl 5y agoThe intended way to do that is to join a party and try to work towards that from within. Parties are required to have democratic internal processes including voting on the candidate lists. But let's face it - only people with political ambitions of their own will even think about that.