The attached document provides a detailed description of the STV counting procedure that will used for the Local Government elections to be held in Scotland on...
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I regret that there were some mistakes in the previously uploaded file that were not detected before it was distributed. A corrected version has been uploaded...
... The Irish data is not broken down by polling station. The Scottish proposal seems to be to overcome the inability to tally votes out of the ballot boxes...
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Apr 20, 2007 4:00 pm
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... taken ... constituencies ... of the ... No, the Irish data are not broken down by Polling District or by Polling Station. (NB In Scotland we can have...
It has been pointed out to me that members who do not have Yahoo accounts will not be able to download from the Files section. The Scottish Executive's...
A Saturday morning paper reports constitutional reforms proposing Gordon Brown to be unenthusiastic about electoral reform. He and David Cameron will do ...
I don't have the reference handy at the moment, but I saw at least one article that said that the ballot spoilage rate for the local elections was about 2%,...
... votes and ... Antony, and others looking for STV data: Take a look at the 32 individual council websites. Some have now published the FULL output from the...
... I have just done a rejected ballot papers analysis for the 21 wards of Glasgow City Council, based on numbers rejected for all reasons. The average for the...
Dennis Pilon, a major figure in the movement for proportional representation in Canada now teaching at the University of Victoria in BC, has written a book to...
To stv-voting members or any interested, I'm putting online a page about the two Ontario Citizens Assembly reports: *One Ballot. Two Votes.* and *Democracy At...
Choice Plus: http://www.votingsolutions.com See also: http://www.fairvote.org/choiceplus It appears that OpenSTV (http://stv.sourceforge.net) does not allow ...
... David Hill's STV program also allows equal rankings. That program was originally written for the Royal Statistical Society, (which does not allow equality...
The Boundary Commission for Scotland has announced today (3 July 2007) that it would commence a general review of the constituencies and electoral regions for...
This is a topic on which I am stumped: is it possible to use preferential voting for elections which require, for instance, majorities among two categories of...
(1) Does the current procedure require a majority of the laity and a majority of the clergy, or a plurality of each? If a majority, how is that guaranteed...
Ren, I agree with Bob - we need more information to fully answer your question. I can imagine that the laity and the clergy each prefer different candidates...
... Herewith some relevant extracts from the CANONS OF THE SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH This procedure uniquely combines voting in two Houses, majority voting,...
I can suggest one way to extend AV to two sets of voters, but I do not think there is a way to be sure the elected candidate has majority support from both...
Thanks to those who replied so far. First, in response to Bob and Anthony, it does happen that in episcopal elections, there are invariably more than two...
On Tuesday, 17 July 2007, the House of Commons will debate an Order that would allow the release of ballot papers from the Scottish Parliament elections to the...
The Hansard report of yesterday's debate in the Third Delegated Legislation Committee of the House of Commons is now available at: Draft Scottish Parliament...
The proposed STV Boundaries are available here: http://www.bc-ebc.ca/proposed_stv The BC Electoral Boundaries Commission Preliminary Report is available here: ...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/12/2002694.htm Howard facing Bennelong rout: poll Posted Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:12am AEST Updated Sun Aug 12, 2007...
While my personal view of John Howard is that he is a shameless scoundrel (who has repeatibly abused the public's trust, as just one reason why he should go),...
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