Practical Operation
Some ways to operate an open list system when using traditional paper-based voting are as follows:
- One (used in Belgium) is to have a large ballot paper with a box for each party and sub-boxes for the various candidates.
- The second method (used in Slovakia) is to have a separate ballot paper for each party. To maintain voter secrecy, the voter is handed a ballot paper for each party. The voter chooses the candidates (or may vote for the party as a whole) on one of the ballots and puts that paper into an envelope, putting the envelope into the ballot box (and discarding the rest into a prepared bin).
- In Brazil, until the spread use of electronic vote, each candidate is assigned a number (in which the first 2 digits are the party number and the others the candidate's number within the party). The voter then writes the number for his candidate in the ballot. In Finland, each candidate is assigned a 3-digit number.
- In Italy, the voter must write the name of each chosen candidate in blank boxes under the party box.
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