Dear STV-supporters, I have an interesting problem. Last spring I tried to convince the company I work for to elect their board of directors using STV instead...
Dear STV-supporters, I was a little disappointed to hear no opinions about my thoughts of using STV power within subgroups of voters of a CV election. I know I...
09/10/02 - Tom Ruen's Droop-STV: Tom Ruen wrote: "I was a little disappointed to hear no opinions about my thoughts of using STV power within subgroups of...
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09/11/02 - Notice of a PR list: Greetings, The `Californians for Proportional Representation' have changed their list from `only Californians' to a national...
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Sep 11, 2002 11:06 am
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09/15/02 - Tom Ruen has opened Pandora's Box: Hi Tom, I was thinking more about your board election. My guess now is that maybe two or three members can be...
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Sep 15, 2002 6:47 am
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Donald, I attached the 2001 election results to you privately and I'm still waiting on the 2002 data. I'll provide it individually to anyone else who asks, but...
Dear Group This is a reply to Tom Ruen's message of 15 July 02. Sorry about the delay, but I have only just joined the group. Droop is to be preferred to Hare...
MessageHi Simon, Good to hear from you. I agree there are funny effects with winners in STV with Hare quota, but I'm not sure I agree in your case as a very...
Dear Tom I agree that my example wasn't good, but it illustrates the point I was trying to make, that Hare can give more seats to a coalition with fewer votes....
10/01/02 comments on `How would this insure I'm represented': Greetings list members, Barney Rehm wrote: "I completely fail to see the logic for a "threshold...
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Oct 1, 2002 11:27 am
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10/03/02 - The Manipulation of Hare Preference Voting: Greetings list members, On 9/10/02 I wrote: `If an election method can be manipulated, then, by God,...
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Oct 3, 2002 3:10 pm
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Hello, I am an amateur of voting systems and I've just signed up for this list. I have a question about PR voting systems and this seems like the right place....
Hi Simon and Jeff, Jeff wrote that his method is "semiproportional", just like Cumulative voting is semiproportional. That means to me it is "better" than...
10/07/02 - Reply to Jeffrey O'Neill: Hi Jeff, When Irving (aka IRV) is used as a multi-seat election method it is called `Bottoms Up', but it is the same...
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Oct 7, 2002 10:15 am
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Hi Donald, Thanks for your reply. I'm glad to finally know that the method is called "Bottoms Up" and am amused by the name too. I find your additional...
10/09/02 - A Dose of Reality for Simon: Simon wrote: "It's an attractive idea, but unfortunately it's not proportional. With votes for 3 seats: ABC 100,...
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Oct 9, 2002 5:23 am
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10/10/02 - Simon's Point Revisited: Greetings List Members, Simon's point was that Bottoms Up (IRV) would not always elect the candidates of the group that has...
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Oct 10, 2002 5:54 am
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stv-voting/message/327 ... Attention is doubtless on how Donald can send messages on STV yet have moments of such bad judgement...
Dear Group There have been two replies from Donald to mine of 6 October. This is my response to both. AVC is an attractive idea, but I am not at all sure how...
10/13/02 - Simon Says, `Drink My Soup of Misinformation': Greetings List members, Simon said: "AVC is an attractive idea, but I am not at all sure how it would...
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When I wrote last to this list, it was with a view that votes of winners ought be transferred. I was assuming Donald was saying otherwise. It is unclear now...
Dear Donald and List Members Taking your points one by one: You are right about Labour and Conservative: Tony Blair is Leader of the Labour Party and therefore...
Hello STV fans, come to defend your method and learn about possible improvements. It is fun. And maybe it is time you win... First let me invite your members...
Hello, Below are two things I find troubling with STV and a conjecture related to them. Any opinions would be greatly appreciated. 1st undesideratum for STV ...
Dear Jeffrey and List Here is a copy of Voting matters Issue 1 in which Brian Meek addresses the problems you present, and Douglas Woodall independently...
Dear All It looks as though my attachment didn't make it to the list. Here it is. Voting matters for the technical issues of STV The Electoral Reform Society ...
... Some people can't make it through even such small paragraphs. This is the story: Joe- (A B) Jane (Z A B) Others ... A lot of Joe's votes vanish due to a...
This can be solved using a Condorcet method as ranked pairs to obtain the elimination order. You can check how it is done on the Electoral_systems_designers ...
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