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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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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Oct 13, 2002 1:03 pm
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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 ...
The "universal" ballot as I called it contains both preferential ranked information and an approval cutoff. See Forest Simon's email and mines on the...
... Is that about your method. I revisit that method: . It was not truncation resistant (hearsay). . Also it could perhaps be worse under a test of: . . -...
Re: We are not Drinking it, says Donald [X,Y,Z now lose?] Dear Craig Carey, You must pay attention if you ever expect to get up to speed (Ha Ha). Donald, - - -...
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Oct 19, 2002 7:59 am
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An argument showing that in 3 winner elections. the 2 winner STV method must have a transfer value of 1.0 (if it is to be a good method), follows. I can't see...
The argument was incomplete. The aim of proportionality is being applied in the region around point R in the diagram. Near there, candidate A wins. The aim of...
10/22/02 - What is Simon's Brand of Proportionality: Simon wrote: "If v/(s+1) is not exact to the number of decimal places specified in the counting system...
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Oct 22, 2002 12:39 pm
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This clarifies it up for me. Donald seems to have a wrong idea of what proportionality, in a ... It is untrue due to the word "will". Perfect proportionality...
Hello, I have three more questions that I hope you won't mind anwsering. 1) The eSTV program states that it uses the ERS97 rules but I can't find these rules...
