The Senate was elected by bloc voting rather than the current single transferable vote system.
Elections take place roughly every four years, and before 2007, 15 members were elected at each election, using partial bloc voting.
Two to two - and they were not bloc voting!
Although the Senate was supposed to be non-partisan, bloc voting became common.
With Kwan, he does not have to worry about bloc voting or personal indiscretion.
"To the extent that's true, the conservatives lose, because they are the ones with the potential to win through bloc voting."
It would try to eliminate bloc voting by randomly selecting seven judges' scores from a pool of 14.
The nearest recent example of such a case yielded no evidence of bloc voting.
The old system encouraged bloc voting, which often mirrored political divisions in the world.
On the other hand, the Senate is elected under first-past-the-post bloc voting.