How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots”

Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by SiempreViernes on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:08AM (#22065815)

An internal policy for the list of candidates on their ballot, stating that every other candidate must be a woman.

This is not the same as the list of who eventually gets elected of course, as the probability of getting elected decreases the further down the list you go. Also the policy appears to apply per ballot, and since there are something like 30 regions with (possibly) independent ballots, there is still some room to stack one way or the other. In the event, last election they got a pretty even split: 48 vs 52.

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by bjourne on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:30AM (#22066063)

For ballots for municipal elections, the candidate's order rarely changes due to person voting. Effectively, the order set by the party is the order people are elected in, barring exceptional circumstances (someone being very popular or unpopular).

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Re:How Swedes were fooled by the book “Surrounded by Idiots” by C1sc0cat on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:22AM (#22065973)

Party list are one of the reasons that PR is not the silver bullet for democracy

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