H G Wells on PR/STV "British political life resists cleansing with all the vigour of a very dirty little boy." -- My favorite quote from H G Wells on...
Folks, First, my apologies to those of you who are on more than one of these mailing lists and are therefore getting duplicates. If you direct your reponses...
Isn't this what Northern Ireland do (Assembly and local government)? Colin Rosenstiel...
Colin Rosenstiel
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Nov 12, 2005 11:58 pm
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... government)? Yes, and no (in terms of the original question). The NI STV rules use the Gregory Method (simple Gregory Method) that calculates fractional...
My view on this after much consideration, mostly some years ago now, is that you either stick to the generality of UK and other STV rules, as in Northern...
Colin Rosenstiel
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Nov 20, 2005 12:57 am
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Dear James, I've spent a considerable amount of time analyzing Newland's article and also your Briefing Note. Unfortunately, I still don't understand what you...
I agree that this is a perverse outcome. Rather than calling it incoherent, perhaps it is better phrased in terms of stability or continuity. Let me change...
Jeffrey O'Neill Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 1:44 PM ... There may well be some trans-Atlantic differences in the terminology, but I would be reluctant to...
Good question. I think continuity and monotonicity are related but not precisely the same. I was only looking at continuity in the context of transferring ...
... article ... understand ... Jeff, I disagree. The examples show that two of the three sets of STV rules illustrated give consistent results and that the...
Has anyone any news about how New Zealand managed to fare with forming a government after their hung parliament? Germany has only just launched its new...
According to a talk I attended in Cambridge addressed by the New Zealand High Commissioner to the UK it all went very smoothly. Colin Rosenstiel...
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For election night data junkies, the PEI results are now being posted here: http://www.electionspei.ca/plebiscites/pr/results/detailed/index.php The news is...
I wonder if there some effects specific to the size of PEI. The current FPTP system has 27 members elected from districts averaging 3700 electors. The...
A few things were unusual. I think they opened about a quarter of the polling stations! (Direct discrimination against disabled, old and poor people) and...
I was reading part of a debate posted during the BC referendum: http://community.netidea.com/ccbc/STV_debate.htm#business In it, the author argues that the...
There is a former Canadian ambasidor to Ireland who retired there and gave a glowing review of STV for the vancouver sun in the BC STV referendum runup. ...
The current instability in the federal government can't have helped. I think most Canadians are fairly down on the idea of minority governments right now -...
Hi Brian, Thanks for this info. I remember the Sun article - it was very interesting. With regard to Ireland's currently functional coalition, do you have...
... It is always sad when a PR initiative is voted down. But this was a poor proposal. MMP (=AMS in UK) is a poor PR system that creates lots of problems....
The man writes commics and is a NDP party hack. Why do you bother with what he says? He does not even notice that giving 40 votes on one side in an arguement...
I think the following link gives the pro's and cons of voting systems fairly well http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/votingsystems/systems3.htm Wikipedia is...
I understand that a dynamic threshold which is recalculated after exhausted ballots are removed from the vote total wastes fewer votes and more reliably ...
I noticed on your link that they are pushing instant runoff on one of the linked pages. The problem with instant runoff is that if one party has a slight lead...
Northern Ireland is like ERS73 and unlike ERS97. It is like traditional counting methods with surpluses transferred as decimal proportions of all relevant...
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