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...
Thankyou Dave R. Ive had a look at your trial elections. Very nicely set-up, which is important. Clean lines, not cluttered. I looked at the map then moved to...
Opponents of electoral reform in British Columbia have claimed that if BC-STV were implemented, all the MLAs in the rural districts would come from the biggest...
In British Columbia some opponents of electoral reform have claimed that STV always "wastes" a near quota of votes - those credited to the finally excluded...
My apologies to those members who received three copies of the message on "Represented Voters in STV-PR elections". Yahoo makes such a mess of any tabular...
City of Aspen Press Release: Mayoral Vote Tally Corrected; Outcome Stays the Same http://theredant.squarespace.com/storage/TallyCorrectedTB.pdf This should be...
Software endorsed by the Electoral Reform Society has been through a validation process, thanks to Brian Wichmann. Colin Rosenstiel...
Colin Rosenstiel
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It appears that the mixup may have been a parameter setting. If you compare the results from Burlington, VT, which used AV for its mayoral election in 2009. ...
These observations are very interesting but the incident in Aspen cannot be dismissed simply as a mix-up in the parameter setting. It is irresponsible...
I was not dismissing it as simply a mix-up in the parameter settings. As I noted, the same software (apparently) was used in Burlington, VT two months ago for...
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