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Amend the Alexandrian Electoral Act
To Establish a Mixed-Member Proportional Voting System and Allow for Independents to Run
BILL
TO
Amend the Alexandrian Electoral Act
To Establish a Mixed-Member Proportional Voting System and Allow for Independents to Run
1 — Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as ‘Indies and MMP Act’ or ‘MMP-Act’.
(2) This Act may be numbered P.B. 01-045.
(3) This Act shall be enacted when both of the following conditions are met:
(a) This Act has received assent from His Majesty the King.
(b) The IND Act has attained Constitutional status through referendum.
(4) This Act has been authored by Member of Parliament ItsStormcraft.(5) This Act has been co-sponsored by Member of Parliament Capt11543.
2 — Reasons
(1) To allow independent candidates to run in elections.
(2) To give the voters direct choice over who represents them in Parliament.
(3) To still retain the closed-list proportional voting at the core of our elections.
3 — Declaration
§4 of the Alexandrian Electoral Act shall be amended as follows:
“(1) Parties are to submit their official candidate list endorsements for direct mandates and their party list for proportional seat allocation during the submission period.
[...]
(1a) Direct Candidates are to declare their candidacy during the submission period.
(a) They must declare which party they are running with, or that they are running as an independent.
(b) If running with a political party, they must have the endorsement of that party.
(c) If running as an independent, they shall make a post in a petition thread opened by the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the beginning of the Declaration period where they shall state: “I, <name>, will contest a direct mandate as an independent.”
(i) This post must obtain five or more Aye-Reactions before the beginning of the voting period for the candidate to be listed.
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(2a) Direct Candidates are to submit their candidate manifesto on or before the fifth day of the election.
(a) A candidate manifesto must consist of the candidate's policies and agenda.
(3) Each party or candidate is to be listed separately on the ballot.
[...]”
4 — General Terms of the MMP-System
§5 of the Alexandrian Electoral Act shall be renamed to “General Terms” amended as follows:
“(1) Voting Process. Voters cast three votes of which they cast one ranked choice vote for a direct candidate — the candidate vote — as well as two for distinct political parties — one primary vote and one substitute vote.
(a) Before proceeding to seat allocation, if a party is disqualified from seat allocation for any reason, the ballots received by that party are transferred to each respective ballot's substitute vote.
(2) Seat Allocation. Seats shall be allocated to each party using the Sainte-Laguë method. In this system, successive quotients are calculated for each party using the following formula: q=v/(s*2+1).
(a) 'Q' represents the quotient for that round.
(b) 'V' represents the total votes the party received.
(c) 'S' represents the number of seats the party has been allocated so far, initially zero (0) for all parties.
(3) Eligibility for Seat Allocation. No political party shall be eligible for a seat allocation unless it receives a number of valid votes equal or greater than the threshold of total valid votes cast divided by the total number of seats available for allocation.
(a) For the purposes of this act, the formula to calculate eligibility shall be: Threshold = Total Valid Votes Cast/Total Seats to be Allocated
(b) For the purposes of calculating the threshold, the result shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number.
(c) Parties that are ineligible shall not be included in seat allocation calculation.
(4) Example for Seat Allocation. Four parties are competing for 12 seats in Parliament. Parties A, B, C, and D respectively earn 25, 13, 18, and 7 votes.
(a) Party A's quotient for the first round will be 25/(0*2+1), which equals 25. Party B, C, and D's quotients are 13, 18, and 7, respectively.
(i) Party A received the highest quotient of 25 in the first round, and is allocated 1 seat.
(b) In the second round, Party A's quotient will be 25/(1*2+1), which equals 8.33. Party B, C, and D's quotients are 13, 18, and 7, respectively.
(i) Party C received the highest quotient of 18 in the second round, and is allocated 1 seat.
(5) Candidate Election. Each individual candidate, grouped by party, shall be elected by the order in which they are listed.
(a) For example, within Party A, which received 4 seats, only the top 4 listed candidates will receive the seats in Parliament.
(6) Winner Determination. This process is repeated for all parties until all seats are filled.
(2) One half of mandates, rounded up, shall be elected directly through a system of Single Transferrable Vote.
(3) The remaining mandates shall be allocated to the parties in such a manner so that taken together, proportional representation under Sainte-Laguë is achieved.”
5 — Detailed Implementation of MMP
(1) Three new Sections shall be inserted after §5 of the Alexandrian Electoral Act numbered §5a – §5c.
(2) First, §5a — Direct Mandates shall be inserted and read the following:
“(1) Voting Process. As their direct vote, voters rank the candidates by preference.
(a) Minimum five preferences or all candidates if less than five.
(2) Vote Threshold for Election.
(a) The threshold (quota) for election is computed by dividing the number of valid ballots by the number of direct mandates plus one.
(b) If votes for a candidate surpasses this threshold they are immediately elected.
(i) If an independent is elected, the primary and substitute vote of all ballots contributing to their election shall be reweighted by the following formula:
(1 - c) * (V - S) / V
*c is the contribution to the candidates election of each individual ballot.
*V is the amount of votes the candidate received.
*S is the number of valid ballots divided by the number of seats of Parliament.
(c) Vote counts shall always be rounded to five decimals (0.00001).
(3) Surplus Votes. If a candidate receives more votes than needed to meet the threshold, then the surplus votes are transferred to the next preference on the voters' ballots according to the Gregory method of redistribution.
(a) The Gregory Fractional Transfer (GFT) Method is a fractional transfer method where all ballot papers are distributed on the election of a candidate but at a fractional value, the Transfer Value.
(i) All votes for the candidate that has been elected with a surplus are reweighted by multiplying the vote weight by the transfer value.
(ii) The reweighted votes are then allocated to the next preference indicated on each ballot.
(iii) The Transfer Value is determined by the formula:
(V - T) / (V)
*V is the amount of votes the candidate received.
*T is the threshold of votes needed to be elected.
(iv) Vote counts shall always be rounded to five decimals (0.00001).
(4) Elimination of Low-Scoring Candidates
(a) If direct mandates remain and all candidates have fewer votes than the threshold, the candidate(s) with the fewest votes is eliminated.
(b) Where the number of candidates to be eliminated exceeds the amount required to allocate the remaining direct mandates, or there is a tie that otherwise needs to be resolved; the tied candidates will be eliminated sequentially based on the results of the previous round of voting. This process is repeated sequentially through preceding rounds as required.
(c) Where it is not possible to eliminate in an unresolvable tie, then the tied candidates will be eliminated at random through:
(i) a random selection within the eye of the public; and
(ii) through a computer generated choice in a way which a specific response cannot be elicited.
(d) The votes of the eliminated candidate(s) are then transferred to the next preference on the voters' ballots.
(5) Repeat Process. Steps 2(b), 3 and 4 are repeated until all direct mandates are allocated.
(6) Winner Determination. The process continues until all direct mandates are allocated. The candidate with the most votes after the final round of counting is declared the winner of the final mandate.
(a) If the amount of direct mandates remaining is equal to the amount of candidates, the remaining candidates are elected.”
(3) Second, §5b — Proportional Representation shall be inserted and read the following:
“(1) All seats not given to independent candidates under §5a of this act shall now be allocated in accordance with Sainte-Lague amongst eligible parties.
(2) Eligibility for Seat Allocation. No political party shall be eligible for a seat allocation unless it receives a number of valid votes equal or greater than the threshold of total valid votes cast divided by the total number of seats available for allocation.
(a) For the purposes of this act, the formula to calculate eligibility shall be: Threshold = Total Valid Votes Cast/Total Seats to be Allocated
(b) For the purposes of calculating the threshold, the result shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number.
(c) Parties that are ineligible shall not be included in seat allocation calculation.
(3) Before proceeding with seat allocation, if a party is disqualified from seat allocation for any reason, the ballots received by that party are transferred to each respective ballot's substitute vote.
(4) Seat Allocation. Seats shall be allocated to each party using the Sainte-Laguë method. In this system, successive quotients are calculated for each party using the following formula: q=v/(s*2+1).
(a) 'Q' represents the quotient for that round.
(b) 'V' represents the total votes the party received.
(c) 'S' represents the number of seats the party has been allocated so far, initially zero (0) for all parties.
(5) Example for Seat Allocation. 12 seats are allocated among 4 parties. The parties A, B, C, and D earn combined 25, 13, 18, and 7 primary and substitute votes respectively .
(a) Party A's quotient for the first round will be 25/(0*2+1), which equals 25. Party B, C, and D's quotients are 13, 18, and 7, respectively.
(i) Party A received the highest quotient of 25 in the first round, and is allocated 1 seat.
(b) In the second round, Party A's quotient will be 12.5 25/(1*2+1), which equals 8.33. Party B, C, and D's quotients are 13, 18, and 7, respectively.
(i) Party C received the highest quotient of 18 in the second round, and is allocated 1 seat.
(6) Winner Determination. This process is repeated for all parties until all seats are filled.”
(4) Last, §5c — Candidate Election shall be inserted and read the following:
“(1) First, seats shall be allocated to all elected direct candidates; for those running for a party, only if their party achieved sufficient seats; otherwise, the lowest ranking candidates for that party shall not be considered so that the party receives as many seats as determined under §5b of this Act.
(2) Second, the remaining seats for each party shall be filled consulting the party lists, with candidates elected in the order in which they are listed, and ignoring any candidates which have already been elected by direct mandate.”
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