The Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) is considering a proposal for a new voting system to ensure votes "have a meaning" and are not wasted. Under the proposal, the votes gained by candidates who lose in the constituency system will be used to calculate the number of party-list seats of each political party nationwide. The CDC considered a study Monday from a subcommittee led by Prapun Naigowit, calling for a new voting system. The subcommittee suggested that MPs be elected directly by the public and the election system should not be complex. An election system should assign "meaning'' to votes so they don't go to waste, the study suggested. In previous elections under the first-past-the-post voting system, votes for candidates who lost were thrown away.