Quite frankly I think it's a great idea whose time has come. The way the voting, and subsequent seat allocation works in a Holyrood election, has been designed to try to prevent any party from gaining a majority. Thus, any party that does well in the constituency vote will do much less well in the regional (list) vote when it comes to allocating seats.
The practical upshot of that it that if you were to give both votes to the SNP then they are likely to get a huge number of constituency MSPs but very few regional (list) ones. Most of them would go to unionist parties. So, if there is a second independence party on the ballot paper, which is only contesting regional seats, independence supporters can vote for the SNP on the constituency ballot and the other Indy party on the regional ballot.
That way the SNP gets its usual huge number of constituency MSPs and the other Indy Party picks up a huge number of the regional seats thus ensuring a pro-Indy majority.
The voting system in use for Holyrood elections is described here:- http://www.parliament.scot/gd/visita...ion/16285.aspx
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