How exactly would open lists work? They sound (in theory) to me to be the best way of "electing the unelected" - however I've never actually read anywhere how they'd actually work - which makes it hard to support. I'm going to write down how it works in my head and if anyone can point out the huge mistakes I've made I would most appreciate it.

1) Parties come with up with a ranked list like they do now.
2) When we go into the booth, along with the normal ballot you also get a ballot that includes all of the party lists (ranked in the party's preferred order). You go to whoever received your party vote and rank their candidates. You can rank them all or you can just rank some of them. If you leave it blank then it's assumed that you support that list and it goes in as if you sorted each and every person one to whatever. If you fill any other party lists then it's ignored. Because that is stupid.
3) Then we just use STV to work out who gets in and gets out. It should surely work the same as multi-member electorates or district health boards right? Say the Greens get 10 seats then out of the sixty-odd people they put on the list, the top ten candidates make it.
4) Since this will take forever (in relative terms) - the results of open party lists won't be made available until after election night. Possibly when the official results are announced?

Honestly, I think people will largely just support the default party lists and we won't see much movement from those.