ELECTORAL REFORM SOCIETY REGULATIONS FOR THE ELECTION OF ONE PERSON BY MEANS OF THE SINGLE TRANSFERABLE VOTE This method of filling a single vacancy is...
Moe St. Evergreen
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Feb 16, 2001 10:04 pm
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Below is an IRV for an organization's bylaws, which allows it to be used for competing resolutions, and which includes None Of The Above and a different method...
Moe St. Evergreen
evergreen@...
Feb 16, 2001 10:16 pm
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Hello, Call me "Moe", short for Moe St. Evergreen. Although I did not finish my college education, I have the equivalent of an Associates in Mathematics (in...
Moe St. Evergreen
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Feb 16, 2001 10:25 pm
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Hello, although I have worked on the issue of IRV, I am not yet completely sold on it, and I do think we should continue to weigh it against other...
Moe St. Evergreen
evergreen@...
Feb 18, 2001 11:43 pm
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... Approval Voting may be OK for some applications, but the basic problem is that it encourages very tactical behaviour - people are liable to either vote for...
Joe Otten
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Feb 19, 2001 7:13 pm
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... Yes, a useful list of links ... I don't think this paper is really fair on STV. He argues "The fact that more first-place votes or even no votes can hurt...
Joe Otten
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Feb 19, 2001 10:33 pm
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... Moe This approach to decision-making is fundamentally unsound. Decision- making is quite different from electing representatives. For decision-making...
James Gilmour
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Feb 20, 2001 11:33 pm
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... Moe There are several books one could usefully read on these subjects. One I would commend to you is "Comparative Electoral Systems" by Robert A Newland...
James Gilmour
jgilmour@...
Feb 20, 2001 11:50 pm
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James, Perhaps your criticism has some sound points. But your presentation is so fundamentally unsound, as to make it completely unconvincing. You use personal...
Moe St. EverGreen
evergreen@...
Feb 21, 2001 5:58 am
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To his credit, Craig Carey is good at explaining why he refuses my messages. Consider this delightful snippet from the explanation below: "I am very content to...
Joe Otten
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Feb 22, 2001 1:15 am
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... Moe Please accept my unreserved apologies if anything I wrote was taken as an attack on any member of this Group. That was never my intention, though now...
James Gilmour
jgilmour@...
Feb 22, 2001 1:47 am
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Have a look at http://news8.thdo.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/vvmain.fcgi where you can make predictions of how many seats each party might win given the number of votes...
Joe Otten
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May 13, 2001 9:12 am
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22 May 2001 I heard recently that a bill was presented to the (Anglican) Church of Ireland's general synod to make STV the electoral system for synodical...
Renato V Aguila
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May 22, 2001 8:49 am
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... The differences are very marginal in their effect. They don't, as the Electoral Reform Society has recommended since 1976, declare candidates with fewer...
rosenstiel@...
May 22, 2001 1:37 pm
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... The Church of England's rules differ from the latest (1997) rules in the following ways: 1. Constraints. Elections may require a number of any given...
Joe Otten
joe.otten@...
May 22, 2001 8:02 pm
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Joe Otten
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May 24, 2001 7:14 pm
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26 May 2001 This news is yet another proof that New Zealand is leading the way, somehow, in putting PR into place in government. Now as for the Scottish local...
Renato V Aguila
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May 26, 2001 12:54 am
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Thanks for the kind sentiments, Renato. The hard part is still ahead of us, though; getting local councils to adopt STV. Kind regards Steve Todd ... ...
Steve Todd
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May 26, 2001 1:36 am
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... somehow, in putting PR into place in government. Now as for the Scottish local government issue, I'm just wondering what's been happening. The NZ act might...
James Gilmour
jgilmour@...
May 28, 2001 5:48 pm
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Does any one happen to know the e-mail address of the Welsh local government reform committee currently discussing voting reform, among other issues? Best...
Richard Lung
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Aug 8, 2001 8:41 pm
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... government reform committee currently discussing voting reform, among other issues? ... legislation. ... I suspect you are looking for information about...
James Gilmour
jgilmour@...
Aug 10, 2001 10:28 pm
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11 August 2001 Hello again. When I first learned about STV more than eight years ago, I remembered that there was an electoral quota for STV where a...
Renato V Aguila
renpaul2@...
Aug 11, 2001 2:27 am
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Yes, a slight difference in quota may make a difference in a close election. Conceptually, the quota is supposed to be lowest number high enough so that it is...
Joe Otten
joe.otten@...
Aug 11, 2001 9:50 am
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Hello Ren, How are you? This answer is pasted from my simple examples of STV web page, last section: The Droop quota: a foot-note For many years, the Electoral...
Richard Lung
richard.lung@...
Aug 11, 2001 9:52 am
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Thanks James for your helpful reply. It seems odd that web feedback and the relevant web site wont be available till the Welsh assembly report on local govt....
Richard Lung
richard.lung@...
Aug 11, 2001 9:52 am
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... available till the Welsh assembly report on local govt. reform is due, if I got that right! ... Some misunderstanding, I think. The present consultation is...
James Gilmour
jgilmour@...
Aug 12, 2001 5:52 pm
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Joe Otten wrote me back, and I'll comment on it. ... So given that situation, it's really in how we implement the rules of the count to a precise degree. I...
Renato V Aguila
renpaul2@...
Aug 14, 2001 2:05 am
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Recent sabotage to the coordinator of this event's computer and websites makes it appear the powers that be do NOT want this seminar to succeed. Sorry for...
decisivevoters@...
Sep 7, 2001 8:38 pm
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I hope that as a result of this seminar, genuine electoral reform can be achieved. But if it means it'll be the same old FPP system in new clothing,...
Renato V Aguila
renpaul2@...
Sep 8, 2001 2:10 am
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17 September 2001 Hello everyone! For the past few weeks now, I've been talking to a few of my fellow students in the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon...
