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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May 29, 2009 1:11 am
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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...
Jim Apologies fro being so long in replying, but I didn't loose sight of it because you have raised several interesting issues. ... So the fault was to select...
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:46:07 +0100, "James Gilmour" ... AFAIK, whether an election is counted as a "Choice Election" or an "Instant Runoff Voting" is itself a...
Jim Riley > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 3:22 PM <CUT> ... This is also done in Ireland where the ballots are randomised before the first sort. That order...
... Although the NI rules still follow Newland and Britton, first edition (1973), they differ in some other respects that are significant. NI handles full...
Colin Rosenstiel
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Aug 1, 2009 5:13 pm
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Colin Rosenstiel > Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 6:11 PM ... Colin raises an interesting, but separate, point. In fact these various sets of rules are full...
I forgot to mention that I thought the changes in the NI rules were the work of Pat Bradley, now retired Chief Electoral Officer. Colin Rosenstiel...
Colin Rosenstiel
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Aug 2, 2009 5:48 pm
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Colin Rosenstiel > Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 6:43 PM ... Yes, I think you are probably right, Colin. I should have checked ALL the documents in my...
... I think the change was made in 1985. Colin Rosenstiel...
Colin Rosenstiel
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Aug 2, 2009 8:43 pm
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... I have long advocated that this measure should be directly integrated into the counting method (see message #236 on this list, for example) and that...
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