That was indeed my understanding. Certain experts told us that strategic voting, in which people vote a strategy rather than an ideology or conviction, is what you intended to remedy.
Could the strategic character have a negative effect on a system such as that?
For example, once a voting base's votes have been allocated, a region might be over-represented. Urban communities might be over-represented in relation to rural communities, for example.
Wouldn't that be a negative effect of the system?
It's an intuition I have. I haven't thought about your model at length, but it seems to be that a member from an urban community might have more weight than a member from a rural community, because of the clientele the member is covering. The demographics would end up being different.
Couldn't that be a negative effect of your system?
Instead of being based on parties, the votes could be based on affiliation x, y or z, which would be unrelated to a political party.
That's a good question, isn't it, Mr. Chair?