Electoral reform
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Electoral reform refers to changing some component of an electoral system. Possible components to be changed include:
- electoral formulae with examples
- single member district, plurality - British parliamentary elections, U.S. Senate and most U.S. House and U.S. state elections
- single member district, majority - French presidential and parliamentary elections, Georgia and Louisiana state elections
- single non-transferable vote - Afghan parliamentary elections
- single transferable vote - Irish, Maltese, Australian parliamentary elections
- mixed member systems - Japanese, Italian, New Zealand, Macedonian, and Scottish parliamentary elections
- personalized proprotional representation - German parliamentary elections
- party list proportional representation with one national electoral district - Dutch and Israeli parliamentary elections
- party list proportional representation with provincial electoral districts - Norwegian, Greek, Spanish, Romanian, Polish, Sri Lankan parliamentary elections
- preference voting proportional representation - Swiss parliamentary elections
- allocation of representation in legislative bodies (size, boundaries and numbers of legislators elected from electoral districts/constituencies/ridings)
- threshold voter turnout percentage required to make an election legitimate
- threshold voter turnout percentage required for a party to win seats under proportional representation
- percentage of the vote required for election of a candidate
- ballot structure
- (secret (Australian) or open)
- (long or short)
- categorical or ordinal voting
- candidate qualifications
- voter identity requirements
- vote counting procedures
Possible electoral reform goals
- Greater Proportionality
- Enable representative recall: the power of the people to recall a representative such as already exists for California governors
- Ensure one adult one vote