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Choice Plus: http://www.votingsolutions.com See also: http://www.fairvote.org/choiceplus It appears that OpenSTV (http://stv.sourceforge.net) does not allow ...
Bob Richard
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Jun 22, 2007
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... David Hill's STV program also allows equal rankings. That program was originally written for the Royal Statistical Society, (which does not allow equality...
James Gilmour
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Jun 22, 2007
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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...
James Gilmour
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Jul 3, 2007
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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...
Ren Aguila
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Jul 4, 2007
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(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...
Bob Richard
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Jul 4, 2007
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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...
Antony Hodgson
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Jul 4, 2007
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... Herewith some relevant extracts from the CANONS OF THE SCOTTISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH This procedure uniquely combines voting in two Houses, majority voting,...
James Gilmour
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Jul 4, 2007
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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...
John Cross
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Jul 5, 2007
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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...
Ren Aguila
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Jul 6, 2007
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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...
James Gilmour
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Jul 16, 2007
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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...
James Gilmour
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Jul 18, 2007
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The submission from Fairshare Voting Reform can be downloaded (PDF 165 KB) from the Fairshare website at: ...
James Gilmour
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Aug 7, 2007
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The proposed STV Boundaries are available here: http://www.bc-ebc.ca/proposed_stv The BC Electoral Boundaries Commission Preliminary Report is available here: ...
John Cross
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Aug 17, 2007
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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...
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Aug 23, 2007
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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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Aug 23, 2007
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Canadians United for Representative Democracy rejects the MMP decision of the Ontario Citizens Assembly but recognises that STV gives PR without compromising...
Richard Lung
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Sep 13, 2007
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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...
Bob Richard
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Sep 18, 2007
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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...
Antony Hodgson
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Sep 18, 2007
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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...
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Sep 19, 2007
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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...
James Gilmour
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Oct 23, 2007
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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...
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Dec 7, 2007
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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...
James Gilmour
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Jan 24, 2008
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BBC Newsnight mentioned on 28 january that the Brown government quietly dropped, last week, its party's commitment to hold a referendum on proportional...
Richard Lung
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Jan 29, 2008
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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...
Richard Lung
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Jan 30, 2008
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Announcing OpenSTV version 1.2 -- software for computing the single transferable vote, instant runoff voting, Condorcet, approval, and many other voting...
Jeffrey O'Neill
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Feb 17, 2008
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The Electoral Reform Society has today published two important reports. SCOTLAND ========= Putting the People in Control ...
James Gilmour
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Feb 26, 2008
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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...
Bob Richard
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Mar 3, 2008
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The UK Electoral Commission has launched a consultation into how political parties describe themselves on ballot papers. The News Release is at: ...
James Gilmour
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Mar 25, 2008
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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...
James Gilmour
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