I think Ireland has been doing this since the 1900's, kind of cool system.
HOWEVER :
[quote]Systemically lowering the number of representatives from a given district directly benefits larger parties at the expense of smaller ones.[/quote]
[quote]If there are not enough candidates to represent one of the priorities the electorate vote for (such as a party), all of them may be elected in the early stages, with votes being transferred to candidates with other views. Putting up too many candidates might result in first-preference votes being spread too thinly among them, and consequently several potential winners with broad second-preference appeal may be eliminated before others are elected and their second-preference votes distributed. In practice, the majority of voters express preference for candidates from the same party in order,which minimises the impact of this potential effect of STV.[/quote]
I still prefer [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_vote_Plus"]AV+[/URL] as a voting system. It's more simple than STV and it still allows for the possibility of a strong single party government.
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