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),...
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...
