I was a few days late on my Ontario Citizens' Assembly comment, but I did plug http://bc.demochoice.org and http://www.demochoice.ca and hope to have a chance...
I have no coding skills but I did put in a proposal to the ontario CA. It is STV with the wasted votes counted by party preference. Wasted votes are all that...
For the cheering fans of Courageous MTV (see message #1300), I'd like to discuss a few more benefits: 1. Suppose you just finished hand counting your election...
Ontario CA lessons for future assemblies. Following the Ontario CA's 80% vote for MMP on feb 18, scarcely over a week after the bulk of the submissions (about...
Hi all, I've been following some of the discussions of the Ontario CA, and a number of people, particularly BCCA member Craig Henschel, have made a strong...
http://election.polarbears.com/online/da2002.htm should have ample info from ireland. I think there is a myth about women in politics. I suspect that many...
... a ... made a ... MMP, the ... the ... for an ... confirms ... they're ... With MMP the system can be controlled (manipulated) by the parties if that is...
Thanks James and Brian for these comments. My own reading of the gender representation issue is that nomination has far more to do with women's electoral...
The first item will give you the current details on women MPs in Australia. Chapter 4 is on Representation. On page 62 there is a table (Table 4.4) that gives...
... The tables in the attached one-page PDF file give some relevant results from the 2003 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. These data must, however,...
Hi James, Thanks for this - it's exactly the sort of information I was looking for. There appear to be a couple of errors in this summary - 18/108 is 17%, not...
Re recent posts about women's representation with STV. Wendy Bergerud, a former BC CA member submitted to Ontario CA a detailed study of the effect of voting...
Thanks Richard. I looked at your paper and saw where you stated that the BNHS produces proportionality - do you have the figures available to quantitatively...
... is ... that ... Those weren't the only mistakes!! A corrected version is attached and has been uploaded to Files for those who don't receive e-mails....
Anthony, If you want the data, you'll have to ask the Electoral Reform Society. The reform came about after representations by ERS personnel, Robert Newland ...
... For some strange reason one of my Googel Alerts today picked up this 2005 article: http://andreareimer.typepad.com/in_the_news/2007/03/globe_mail_stv_.htm ...
Hi James, It's coming out today because it was written by Doris Anderson, one of Canada's foremost feminists, who died this past week. Andrea Reimer was the...
... Thanks, Antony. I should have spotted that "Andrea Reimer" was running a reprint of a 2005 article by "Doris Anderson". I picked up lots of items on...
Interesting discussion about why there aren't more women in politics. Aren't any women in this discussion either, which says something. The way to get parity...
Hi Brenda, Thanks for these comments - lots of insight into the differences between men and women running. I also agree that we won't reach parity until ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6kaw6PCn9I That is the first draft and it is for getting the idea out. I did not mention a potential problem in the video. How...
Announcing OpenSTV version 1.1 -- software for computing the single transferable vote, instant runoff voting, and many other voting systems. More details and...
Hi Jeff, Thanks very much for doing this. I'm hoping to be able to use OpenSTV at some point. My interests over the next couple of years are to continue to...
Can someone who really understands Australian politics please explain why there are 333 candidates standing for the 21 contested seats in the current election...
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_of_the_New_South_Wales_legisl ative_election%2C_2007 Antony I got my information direct from the official source,...
... True enough. Just as importantly, leaving a candidate unranked has a specific meaning -- it means that I would rather my vote not count at all than have...
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