I asked an Irish friend his opinion of the PR-STV system, and he said he thought that the TV reports of the count were the best entertainment of the year. He...
Dear Jim Ronback, the main aim of STV is to achieve Droop proportionality. Suppose S is the number of seats and V is the number of voters. Then "Droop...
This is a link to an excellent article in today's Vancouver Sun. The Irish voting system is very similar to the one the B.C. Citizen's Assembly has submitted...
I have changed the group policy so the new members posts are moderated. Once a member has made a genuine post, demonstrating they are not a spammer, moderation...
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:19:12 -0700, Jim & Mary Ronback ... I don't know that ballots are counted at individual polling places. It would be impossible, or at...
When i was in Ireland, there were no computers in use. The optical scanners and the matrix is an example of a voting system made for machines. The chance of...
On Wed, 4 May 2005 22:54:09 -0700 (PDT), Brian White ... An ideal format for expressing ranked preference is a list, where the voter would indicate their...
Well, after florida, distrust of voting written for and read by machines should be at an all time high. Simplicity for the voter is of primary importance. In ...
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Perhaps: We should optically scan the ballots, and then have three eyes check the ballots against the computer copy. Then, the raw ballot data would be...
A question about the May 17 British Columbia referendum: does an abstention count as a "no" vote? In other words, do the rules say 60 per cent of those ...
Hello all I specifically ask this question and spoke to Hary Neufeld directly. Only valid ballots yes or no will count towards the determination of the % of...
I do not understand why people do not understand that many interests are actively wanting to pervert democracy. It needs to be above reproach. A ukraine type...
Computers have worms, viruses trojans and software. People make all of those things. Now if you have a human counter counting and reps of the partys watching...
Computers have worms, viruses trojans and software. People make all of those things. Now if you have a human counter counting and reps of the partys watching...
On Thu, 5 May 2005 23:56:09 -0700 (PDT), Brian White ... But the one county that used paper ballots, had one of the highest rate of undervotes/overvotes. And...
... Those doing the counting or observing the counting have an interest in wanting to continue to perform that task. One way to justify (or rationalize) the...
On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:09:52 -0700 (PDT), Brian White ... Have there been independent reports about the Irish experiment with computerized voting/counting? Can...
... The report of the Commission on Electronic Voting in Ireland is available at: http://www.cev.ie/htm/report/download_first.htm For a citizens' view, see: ...
I have used stv computer programmes too and I was part of an email group opposing the machines in Ireland. The biggest problem is that they had no paper trail...
On Mon, 9 May 2005 22:54:59 -0700 (PDT), Brian White ... How would this affect mark-sense ballots? ... How much of the change was due to the uncounted ballots...
At the end of April there was a request for some data and some graphics showing wasted votes in FPTP and STV elections. I have just prepared a histogram of...
... That's exactly what I meant by the lack of a satisfactory way. It may work for small numbers of candidates but it's not scalable enough. For larger numbers...
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... The last Cambridge city council election in 2003 had 20 candidates and 9 write-in slots, for 9 positions. When there are many more than that candidates,...
I for one find it confusing. I dont have a problem with the old way where I wrote 1,2,3 beside the candidates name. I would get lost in the rows and columns. I...
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