Additional member system

Sometimes when we want to choose a leader or a group of people to make decisions, we need to use a special system to make sure that everyone's voices are heard and counted properly. One of these systems is called the Additional Member System.

Imagine you have a whole bunch of toys to play with, but you can only pick one at a time. You ask your friends which toy they think you should choose, and they all say something different. How are you going to pick just one toy that will make everyone happy?

The Additional Member System works kind of like this. Let's say we have a big group of people who need to choose some leaders to make important decisions. We ask everyone who they want to be their leader, and they pick candidates from different groups or parties. Each person gets two votes: one for the person they want to be their local leader, and one for the party they want to support.

Then we count up all the votes. The candidate with the most local votes becomes the leader for that area. The party with the most votes from all over the place gets a bunch of extra seats in the decision-making group, so that they have a say in the decisions too. This helps make sure that everyone's voice is heard, even if they don't live in the area where the leader got the most votes.

So the Additional Member System is a way of balancing out different groups of people and giving everyone a fair chance to be heard. It's kind of like picking a toy to play with when you have lots of friends with different opinions - everyone gets a say, and we try to make everyone happy!