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...
Colin Rosenstiel
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Jan 30, 2006 5:48 pm
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Dave Robinson at Demochoice (demochoice.org/info.php) describes a variant on the Meek process which is aimed at minimizing the number of ballots split into...
Hello, I have three papers that may be of interest to members of this list. I would appreciate any comments, and please send them to me off list. PDF's can be...
I didn't realize that you had to join the SSRN site to download the papers. You can also download the papers here: http://jeff.oneill.googlepages.com/home ...
Hi everybody I happened upon the eSTV system whilst surfing the net and it seems a good idea in introducing democracy to a very apathetic group/housing system....
None of the above. Some months ago, Brian White advocated the "None of the above" option on a ballot paper. ( How is that outrageously unequal double-60...
Actually I made the case for none of the below, Brian ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the...
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A big victory culminates phase 1 of the campaign in Minneapolis. Tony Solg�rd, President FairVote Minnesota PO Box 19440 Minneapolis MN 55419 (763) 807-2550 ...
I guess it is a start but IRV is just one member elected from any area, is it not? So, it is not really a breakthrough. In a homogenous population, a single...
Dear Tony Solgard and Fair Vote Minnesota, Dont get people's hopes up too much about IRV. It is the proportional counting of the preference vote - the two...
Two questions Tony and the Better Ballot Campaign in Minneapolis need to ask themselves are: (1) Are there specific circumstances that make IRV a winnable...
My apologies to Tony and his colleagues for entirely missing the references to the Park Board, Library Board and so on in the Q&A section of the website. The...
The amendment recommended by the council is a slightly amended form of what we had been campaigning for by petition, which is second on the list at ...
For better or worse, the term "Instant Runoff Voting" has progressed farthest into common nomenclature and we chose to use it, blurring the distinction between...
Has anyone ever proposed combining STV with MMP? I am developing a voting system proposal that works as follows: The State is divided into districts with a...
... a ... Never mind how it might work, the real question is (or should be), why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? STV-PR and MMP have completely...
... Why would anyone want to taint a system giving voters true free choice of candidates with a discredited party list system? Colin Rosenstiel...
Colin Rosenstiel
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Jun 4, 2006 12:29 am
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Hi all, I'm new to this list, but I worked on the Yes campaign for STV in BC last year and am now a director with Fair Voting BC. In collaboration with Dave...
I suggest 3 seat stv with the mmp component being the almost 25% whose vote contribute to the final losing candidate. (all other votes have elected people so ...
Re the suggestions to combine STV with MMP in British Columbia, arent we forgetting that the Citizens Assembly made their decision after a year's work on the...
... and we ... multi-winner elections. ... There is a delightful "reverse take" on this use of "IRV" to embrace both STV in single-winner elections and STV-PR...
... proportionality down ... Take a look at some real results from real STV-PR elections and real MMP elections and I think you'll see that this concern about...
