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),...
Canadians United for Representative Democracy rejects the MMP decision of the Ontario Citizens Assembly but recognises that STV gives PR without compromising...
Can anyone help me find more details on the study reported in this article? I'm especially interested in the research design -- how many respondents, how they...
Hi Bob, Check out: http://www.democraticreform.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=1382 All the questions were on a 7 point scale. There were likely ordering effects, and...
Norm Ruff sent me this link. Maybe it will help: In case you missed this Compas survey for Ottawa that is referred to in today's paper. ...
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Far out; the manner in which those questions have been framed would put Sir Humphrey Appleby to shame. For anyone not previously familiar with him, or the "Yes...
The Reports on the Scottish Parliamentary and local government elections in Scotland held on 3 May 2007 were published today, 23 October 2007. There are two...
I presented a version of this several months ago on this list, but since then I have made significant progress toward simplicity, with minimal compromise of my...
Governance of Britain UK voting systems review http://www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp? ReleaseID=347379&NewsAreaID=2 News Release from the Ministry of...
BBC Newsnight mentioned on 28 january that the Brown government quietly dropped, last week, its party's commitment to hold a referendum on proportional...
Attachments warning. Dear members, My apologies, since I downloaded my e-mail back-log, and now have Windows xp with Outlook Express, Ive been infested with...
Announcing OpenSTV version 1.2 -- software for computing the single transferable vote, instant runoff voting, Condorcet, approval, and many other voting...
Google Alerts turned up this article from Malta: http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=65879 which refers to (but doesn't describe) "various...
STV One Year On ============= On 3 May 2007, Scottish councils were elected by the Single Transferable Vote for the first time. One year on, the Electoral...
Dear stv-voters, Several months ago, I proposed a new STV recipe that converges on the Hare threshold (while still using the Droop threshold) with minimal ...
Announcing OpenSTV version 1.3 -- software for computing the single transferable vote, instant runoff voting, Condorcet, approval, and many other voting...
The Speakers Conference on Parliamentary Representation has started work. I sent them, by way of their secretaries, an Open Letter, which is at this URL: ...
A couple of decades ago, AMS hadnt been programmed. I suppose that deficiency has long been made good. I suppose programmers would have to allow for different...
... Richard I may have missed something, but I didn't see anything about AMS (aka MMP) on the OpenSTV website - indeed, it would have been a surprise to find...
James, My source for AMS not having been programmed, a couple or so decades ago, came from a book (edited?) by Iain McClean. (his name might be spelt slightly...
Richard I suppose the simple reason why AMS (MMP) has not been programmed is that no-one would be stupid enough to want to use AMS (MMP) for private elections....
Dear STV-voting members British Columbia is holding its second referendum for STV on May 12 2009. The Cincinnati ballot for PR allegedly was derailed by some...
James, Thankyou for your expert explanations. If I remember rightly, Mr McClean did eventually recommend AMS to the Independent Commission on Voting Methods...
Dear STV voting members. Electoral meaning to Buffon's needle trials; Complex probability and Infinitely perfect numbers. The sine curve area is demonstrated...
In attempt to counter the forces of evil as described by Richard Lung, I have worked with a few BC people to prepare: http://trystv.ca I would like to invite...
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