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PR Ballots |
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Here are 8 ballots for several types of proportional representation elections: Single Transferable Vote, List-PR (open and closed lists) and Mixed Memeber Proportional.
Single Transferable Vote BallotsSTV ballots let voters rank their choices just as Condorcet ballots do. They often look the same.
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Party List BallotsClosed-list PR asks voters to mark their ballots for 1 party. Open-list PR asks voters to mark their ballots for 1 candidate; that vote counts for both her position on her party's list and for her party's percentage of the votes and seats. These ballots are like ballots for the single-winner plurality rule in that each voter makes 1 mark on his ballot.
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Mixed Member Proportional BallotsA voter marks his ballot for 1 party and also for 1 district rep. There are 2 contests on the ballot and it looks like a ballot for 2 contests under single-winner rules. In most countries with MMP, the district's use plurality elections. A few countries use district runoffs. They could use IRV to ensure the district rep has the support of a majority. Or they could use a Condorcet rule to elect the local district rep and give the council a larger group of central swing voters - if the party leaders cannot coerce the legislative votes of the district winners.
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Accurate Democracy 
